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Miss Brazil Rafaela Manfrini Crowned Miss Trans Star International 2016

Category: Top News Date added: 12:01:02 AM 05/Oct/2016 Added By: ADMIN

Miss Brazil Rafaela Manfrini won the Miss Trans Star International beauty pageant in Barcelona on September 18, beating out 30 other women from around the world.

Miss Brazil Rafael Manfrini (2ndR) is congratulated after winning the Miss Trans Star International beauty pageant in Cornella de Llobregat on September 18, 2016. / AFP / PAU BARRENA        (Photo credit should read PAU BARRENA/AFP/Getty Images) PAU BARRENA/AFP/Getty

Manfrini, a makeup artist in Sao Paolo, thanked friends, fans and family on Facebook, as well as the trans community worldwide. I'm so excited and I promise I will represent them well.

BARCELONA, SPAIN - SEPTEMBER 17:  Fabyola Fontanny (R) of Greece  selected as a finalist during the Miss Trans International 2016 competition on September 17, 2016 in Barcelona, Spain.  (Photo by Robert Marquardt/Getty Images)Robert Marquardt/Getty Images

Talleen Abu Hanna of Israel, who won first runner up, told AFP, Here all of us are winners alreadywe won our life.

A Christian Arab from Nazareth, Abu Hanna was won Israel's first Miss Trans competition in May.

This is an attempt to engage society, said Thara Wells, the contest's founder. We want to go beyond beauty and tell the life story of each girl.

TOPSHOT - A participant poses on the stage during the Miss Trans Star International beauty pageant in Cornella de Llobregat on September 18, 2016. / AFP / PAU BARRENA        (Photo credit should read PAU BARRENA/AFP/Getty Images)PAU BARRENA/AFP/Getty

For some, that story has been a hard one: Miss SaHHara represented Nigeria at the pageant, but had to flee her homeland when she was a teen.

In the street, they were always attacking me, harassing me, she said. I came back home and my family would harass me, they said 'you're wrong, you need to change, act like a man'.

Miss Nigeria Miss saHHara (L) blows a kiss to the audience during the Miss Trans Star International beauty pageant in Cornella de Llobregat on September 18, 2016. / AFP / PAU BARRENA        (Photo credit should read PAU BARRENA/AFP/Getty Images)PAU BARRENA/AFP

She attempted suicide twice and was jailed for wearing women's clothing. Eventually SaHHara fled to London where she found asylum and a chance to live as her authentic self. She hopes to raise awareness of what trans women like her face.

I will try to influence people or perhaps influence my government to revoke 14 years imprisonment for LGBT [people] in Nigeria.

Below, watch a behind-the-scenes video from the 2016 Miss Trans Star International Pageant.

 


Source: http://www.newnownext.com/transgender-beauty-pageant-europe/09/2016//

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