{"id":1945827,"date":"2023-06-06T18:38:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-identifying-man-to-compete-in-miss-california-pageant\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:39:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:39:34","slug":"trans-identifying-man-to-compete-in-miss-california-pageant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-identifying-man-to-compete-in-miss-california-pageant\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who identifies as transgender to compete in Miss California Pageant."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrans-identifying-man-to-compete-in-miss-california-pageant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1945827&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Meet the First Trans-Identifying Man to Win Miss San Francisco<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEvery time I put on the sash, the weight of it reminds me of the weight of my job; of the responsibility I have to make a difference for young children,\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Monroe Lace, a man who identifies as a woman, made history by winning the Miss San Francisco pageant in March. Now, he&#8217;s set to compete in the 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miss California<\/a> Pageant in July, becoming the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-type-of-misogyny-trans-women-fetishizing-periods-is-a-slippery-slope\/\" title=\"\u2018New Type Of Misogyny\u2019: Trans Women Fetishizing Periods Is A Slippery Slope\">trans-identifying man<\/a> to do so.<\/p>\n<h3>A Beauty Queen with a Mission<\/h3>\n<p>Lace, 25, is on a mission to make a difference for young children. He visits a different elementary school almost every day, reading books like &#8220;Sparkle Boy&#8221; to students and inspiring them to be themselves.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI know that there\u2019s a trans kid out there \u2026 who is reading [Lace\u2019s] story as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ice-nominee-worked-with-blm-to-push-false-claim-that-white-man-murdered-7-year-old-black-girl\/\" title=\"ICE Nominee Worked With BLM to Push False Claim That White Man Murdered 7-Year-Old Black Girl\">receiving death threats<\/a> and mean comments about his appearance, Lace remains undeterred. He believes that his story can inspire others and make a difference in the world.<\/p>\n<h3>The Push for Men in Women&#8217;s Competitions<\/h3>\n<p>The push for men to compete in women\u2019s competitions has become an intense cultural and political question, prompting debate and controversy. Female athletes like Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlon have spoken out against men in women\u2019s sports, particularly concerning male swimmer Lia Thomas. Recently, ESPN commentator Samantha Ponder broke with her company\u2019s orthodoxy to speak out against men competing in women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-celebration-of-womanhood-transgender-competitor-wins-miss-nevada-usa\/\" title=\"A \u2018Celebration Of Womanhood\u2019: Transgender Competitor Wins Miss Nevada USA\">federal court ruled<\/a> that Miss USA could keep its \u201cnatural born female\u201d policy under the First Amendment\u2019s Free Speech clause.<\/p>\n<h3>Join the DailyWire+ Community<\/h3>\n<p>Stay up-to-date with the latest news and analysis on this and other important issues by downloading the DailyWire+ app today.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1685885459858000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0AFvCLn4CIt7S8nPLjhrIg\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>compete in the Miss California Pageant. Monroe Lace, who identifies as a woman, won the Miss San Francisco pageant in March and will be the first trans-identifying man to compete in the Miss California Pageant in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2107,"featured_media":1945828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4045,6978,7056,26944,4019],"class_list":["post-1945827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-california","tag-compete","tag-identifies","tag-pageant","tag-transgender"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}