Amy Brosnahan An Auckland model has decided to pull out of a bikini competition, which she can’t win because she is transgender. Amy Brosnahan was asked to be in Miss Bikini New Zealand when she successfully competed in Battle of the Babes. She'd fought to even compete in that contest, after being told she couldn't when she revealed she was trans. However organisers changed their minds and Brosnahan ultimately made the national final. Now she is facing fresh discrimination from a second contest, as while she can compete in the Miss Bikini New Zealand, she can’t win and represent New Zealand, as the international pageant’s laws dictate participants must be “born female”. Brosnahan also feels she may be being used for publicity, which she is not comfortable with. “I feel like if I compete, I should be able to go to the final,” she says. “I don’t want to compete in a competition which discriminates.” She adds: “I want to be a model. I really want to be a model. But I want to do it right. Just because I am transgender, it doesn’t make me any less of a female.”
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Tuesday, 15th April 2014 - 7:02am