Miss USA Crowned The First Active Duty Officer In History And She’s A REAL WOMAN

For the first time, an active-duty United States Army officer was crowned Miss USA on Sunday. This was the same year in which a biological male who identifies as female won the Miss Maryland beauty pageant.

CNN reported that when Miss Michigan Alma Cooper hit the catwalk at a Los Angeles ballroom Sunday wearing the stars, stripes and glittering tiara as well as an unexpected sash reading “Miss USA,” she flashed her usual beauty queen beam.

Cooper, combining her inspiration of sand and service became one in the same when she said to judges during the pageant Q&A segment: “As the daughter of a migrant worker, a proud Afro Latina woman and an officer of the United States Army, I am living the American dream.”

“Other contestants may be drawn to pageants for their glitz and glamor, but I see the stage as an opportunity to represent the many girls of color who often go unseen and unheard, and to inspire others to free themselves from circumstances and perceptions about who they are.”

Bailey Anne Kennedy, a transgender woman who competed as Miss Maryland in the event against those 49 female pageant winners both times. Kennedy did not crack the top 20, but she called her state competition win in June “whirlwind because I knew it was bigger than me. I knew that it was going to mean a lot for all the LGBTQ kids out there who might feel like they don’t belong in a box — like me growing up.”

In a similar case last year, 22-year-old trans-identified male Rikkie Kolle won the title of Miss Netherlands and subsequently participated in the 2023 Miss Universe competition.

That same year a trans-identifying male was crowned Miss San Francisco and went on to compete in the Miss California pageant. A man who goes by the name Monroe Lace won the title in March so that she could face competition to be crowned Miss California 2023.