Kayleigh Bush, the 2024 winner of the Miss North Florida beauty contest, has revealed that she was stripped of her Miss America title because she reused to sign a contract that would have forced her to accept transgenderism.
Bush was stripped of her title in November of 2024 despite winning her contest and signing a contract to confirm her position.
The beauty queen, though, claims that she was asked to sign a replacement contract several months after she won. Bush says the contract contained new language affirming transgenderism. And it was something she refused to sign.
“It was heartbreaking. It was confusing. It was disappointing,” Bush said. “Because Miss America has been honoring women for over 100 years, and now they can’t even define what a woman is.”
“I used to look up to Miss America because they empowered women, but now it’s really disappointing to see that they’ve abandoned such a common-sense truth — that a man is a man and that a woman is a woman. I am disappointed in the Miss America organization, but I’m really hoping that they get back on track or return to truth,” she added.
The new rules maintain that applicants must be un-married women between the ages of 18 and 28. But the description of what a woman is now includes transgenderism and describes possible applicants as “an individual who has fully completed Sex Reassignment Surgery via Vaginoplasty (from male to female).”
But Bush says that she could not accept the new language affirming transgenderism.
“I was asked to sign a contract that was different than the first one that I had agreed to because they had changed it four weeks after I rightly won,” Bush told TMZ. “So I didn’t lose my crown because I broke a rule. I lost the crown because I was unwilling to rewrite the truth.”
She added that her mother was also unhappy over the changes to the contest rules.
“We got on a conference call immediately with one of the directors for the Miss America organization,” Bush said. “And weeks and weeks and weeks of pleading with them, sending videos, sending letters, emails, demand letters through Liberty Counsel — because they picked up my case — and they just said ‘no, no, no,’ and they doubled down.”
She added, she declined to sign the contract, “Because I couldn’t agree that a little boy could mutilate his body and become a woman.”
Representatives for the Miss America contest have replied to Bush’s claims and have said that its rules are meant to keep the contest from “discriminatory” practices against possible contestants.
“Miss America’s position is grounded in uniform application of its rules,” a spokesperson said, “fairness to all contestants and adherence to nondiscrimination principles. The contract does not compel Ms. Bush to compromise her personal beliefs; it requires only that all contestants compete under the same standards and refrain from discriminatory conduct towards others.”
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