A transgender lady was topped because the Miss Universe Netherlands’ winner Saturday.
Rikkie Valerie Kolle beat out Nathalie Mogbelzada to say the competitors’s prime prize, in line with TMZ.
The 22-year-old from Breda turned the primary transgender lady to win the competitors in her nation.
She would be the second transgender particular person to compete on the Miss Universe pageant later this yr in El Salvador, following within the footsteps of Spain’s Angela Ponce who did so in 2018.
“It’s unreal but I get to call myself Miss Netherlands 2023,” Ms. Kolle wrote Sunday on Instagram.
“I’m so proud and happy I can’t even describe it. Making my community proud and showing it can be done. And yes I’m trans and I want to share my story but I’m also Rikkie and that’s what matters to me. Did this on my own and loved every moment of it,” she continued.
The new proprietor of the Miss Universe pageant — Anne Jakrajutatip — is transgender as properly.
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