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Move over Miss Carolina with your "such as US Americans!" Get off the cross Carrie Prajean with your "Opposite Marriage!" There’s a new dum dum in town and she hails from the Beehive State.

A beauty queen who claimed this year’s Miss USA contest was fixed because it allowed transgender contestants, has been ordered to pay the pageant organization $5 million for defamation.

The Miss Universe Organization says a former contestant should be made to pay for her "defamatory" claims that this year’s Miss USA pageant was a sham.

The former Miss USA contestant who stepped down this week is standing by her claim the contest was rigged.

The Miss USA pageant representative from Pennsylvania resigned her crown claiming the contest is rigged, but according to organizers the beauty queen was upset over the decision to allow transgender contestants to enter.

The nation’s newest Miss USA winner is a Rhode Island cellist who says she supports transgender contestants in beauty pageants.

The first-ever transgender contestant to compete in the Miss Universe Canada pageant strutted the runway Saturday night, making it to the penultimate round before losing her bid to win the title.

A rule change that would allow transgender women to participate in the Miss Universe beauty pageant next year is a step forward for equality, advocates said Tuesday after pageant officials announced the policy shift.

The Miss Universe Organization announced Monday that it might reverse an earlier decision and allow a transgender woman to enter the Miss Universe Canada pageant.

A 23-year-old transgender woman claims she was discriminated against after she was removed from Miss Universe Canada because she was not "naturally born female."