The Miss Italy beauty pageant announced that biological males are not allowed in its annual competition, requiring all contestants to “be a woman from birth.”

Miss Italy Official Patron Patrizia Mirigliani told Radio Cusano that the competition will “not jump on the glittery bandwagon of trans activism,” The Blaze reported.

“Lately, beauty contests have been trying to make the news by also using strategies that I think are a bit absurd,” a Google Translate version of her comments read, according to Newsweek.

Miss Italy bans transgender contestants, must be a woman from birth: 'Will not jump on the glittery bandwagon of trans activism'https://t.co/IWHAkR4XXW

— YAF (@yaf) July 21, 2023

“Since it was born, my competition has foreseen in its regulation the clarification according to which one must be a woman from birth,” Mirigliani added. “Probably because, even then, it was foreseen that beauty could undergo modifications, or that women could undergo modifications, or that men could become women.”

The announcement comes after the Miss Netherlands contest crowned trans-identifying male Rikki Valerie Kolle the winner of the 2023 contest, beating out 9 women to get the title.

“A man just won ‘Miss Netherlands’ 2023,” Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek tweeted. “Considering the fact that we live in a post-Truth world, I wasn’t even expecting anything else. It’s all so predictable and unoriginal at this point.”

A man just won “Miss Netherlands” 2023.

Considering the fact that we live in a post-Truth world, I wasn’t even expecting anything else. It’s all so predictable and unoriginal at this point. pic.twitter.com/j6NKo2cCvu

— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) July 9, 2023

“The Netherlands is home to some of the most beautiful women on earth,” another account posted. “Of all these beautiful women, they just nominated a transgender man to be Miss Netherlands 2023. A man with a penis should be disqualified from any female beauty pageant and the fact that statement will gain me haters is just insane.”

The Netherlands is home to some of the most beautiful women on earth.

I mean that with all sincerity. They are gorgeous.

Of all these beautiful women, they just nominated a transgender man to be Miss Netherlands 2023.

A man with a penis should be disqualified from any female…

— Ada Lluch 🇪🇸 (@ada_lluch) July 9, 2023

Kolle will now go on to represent the country in the 2023 Miss Universe competition. The competition is owned by a trans-identifying male.

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Kolle called the Miss Italy decision “so sad,” Newsweek noted.

In the United States, the Miss USA pageant invited its first trans-identifying male entrant in from Nevada in 2021, The National Desk noted. Not to be confused with the Miss United States of America beauty contest, which won a case in a U.S. appeals court in 2022 that ruled it could not be forced to admit trans-identifying males as contestants.

Related: ‘Post-Truth World’: Man Wins Miss Netherlands, Sparking Outrage On Twitter

The opening weekend for “Barbenheimer,” as the double movie opening is being called, defied expectations for both films and made it the fourth most lucrative domestic box office weekend in history.

Moviegoers showed up for Greta Gerwig’s highly anticipated fantasy comedy “Barbie,” which outdid expectations with a $155 million opening, the biggest debut of the year so far. Mainstream critics heaped praise on the film and creators spent a massive amount on marketing in the months leading up to its release. 

However, the marketing campaign for “Barbie” largely omitted the overt feminist themes present in the movie.

“Barbie” earned an additional $182 million at the international box office, bringing its total earnings to $337 million in the first weekend alone, per a Variety report.

“We have a pink unicorn here,” Jeff Goldstein, president of domestic distribution at Warner Bros., said. “We thought it would be $75 million for the opening weekend. Nobody saw $155 million coming. This doll has long legs.”

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Christopher Nolan’s historical drama “Oppenheimer” also outperformed expectations. The movie starring Cillian Murphy as the titular character raked in an impressive $80.5 million domestically on opening weekend. Combined with international box office numbers, the film brought in a total of $174 million.

Though the movies couldn’t have been more different, many theatergoers made the event into a double feature, no doubt bolstering revenue for both by choosing to lean into the “Barbenheimer” hype.

“This is an unequivocally great weekend for moviegoing,” David A. Gross of the movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research said of the results. “‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ are complementing each other at the box office, not taking audience from each other.”

The unique pairing has led to this weekend becoming the fourth-highest of all time in the movie industry. Variety noted that the top three performing weekends were led by the debuts of sequels in highly popular franchises — “Avengers: Endgame,” “Avengers: Infinity War,” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” That makes this result especially surprising.

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Though “Barbie” technically outperformed “Oppenheimer,” the historical drama is still being considered a huge success. 

“This is a 1940s period piece,” Universal’s President of Domestic Distribution Jim Orr said of the early numbers. “That speaks volumes to the appeal of Nolan and his prowess as a filmmaker. He has an amazing reputation for storytelling in the biggest format possible.”

Analysts had originally predicted that “Oppenheimer” drama could bring in $50 million.