Images: Osmel Sousa and Angela Ponce's Instagram Accounts
Venezuelan beauty queen maker Osmel Sousa seemed supportive of a transgender woman’s right to compete in the Miss Universe pageant. This after Miss Universe Spain 2018 Angela Ponce made history when she became the first transwoman to compete at the Miss Universe pageant.
Here’s a translation of Osmel's post published in Instagram:
In view of the many criticisms and offenses I have received, for fixing my position in relation to @angelaponceofficial nature sometimes or often makes us bad plays. That girl was born a woman, and thanks to medical science she got where she belongs. Because we must discriminate if she is a woman and feels like a woman. The discriminatory judgments that life makes us are painful. Even sexuality we do not choose it. Today I ask God that all those who are against their participation in the Miss Universe, do not give birth to a child with this condition and this cruel society will discriminate against you. It would be terrible. In passing, that transgender adjective I hate. She was born a girl and is now a girl. TO HER, I wish you success in your contest. And you who you to criticize it. God bless you