{"id":115933,"date":"2021-03-03T14:35:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T06:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115933"},"modified":"2021-03-03T14:35:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T06:35:26","slug":"miss-panama-to-accept-transgender-women-from-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115933","title":{"rendered":"Miss Panama to accept transgender women from 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Header-Image-5-750x375.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Header-Image-5-750x375-696x348.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PANAMA CITY, March 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Miss Panama organization announced that starting this year, the pageant would include transgender women \u201cwho have completed all their legal and medical procedures\u201d in its competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contest, which is responsible for choosing the country\u2019s representative for the Miss Universe pageant, said the decision was made \u201cafter plenty of conversations and in line with the rules of the Miss Universe organization.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miss Panama \u201cwill permit women officially legally recognized in the country,\u201d which will \u201copen the door to transgender women who have completed all of their legal and medical procedures,\u201d the organization said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miss Universe requires that each national event allow people legally recognized as women to participate in that particular country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President of Miss Panama, Cesar Anel Rodriguez, said that the country\u2019s move is a response to the Miss Universe regulation in regards to transgender women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe investigated the issue of people who are legally recognized for changing their gender\u201d in Panama, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that a 2018 announcement indicated that at least 10 transgender women in Panama had been recognized in the civil register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGuaranteed to be an inclusive organization, we approved this decision based on strict legal guidelines and according to previous international agreements,\u201d the organization\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For now, there are no transgender women registered for the pageant, according to its officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, Angela Ponce became the first openly transgender woman to compete in the Miss Universe pageant as the representative from Spain. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PANAMA CITY, March 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Miss Panama organization announced that starting this year, the pageant would include transgender women \u201cwho have completed all their legal and medical procedures\u201d in its competition. The contest, which is responsible for choosing the country\u2019s representative for the Miss Universe pageant, said the decision was made \u201cafter plenty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":115938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}