Miss North Florida 2025 has been stripped of her title because she refused to sign a Miss America contract that falsely defines “female” to include castrated males.
Kayleigh Bush was crowned in August 2024 and stripped of the title in November after objecting to the false definition as contrary to her religious beliefs and Florida law.
Ultimately, the contract requires female beauty candidates to agree to compete against biological males – who have been subjected to medical mutilation as minor boys – and agree that these mutilated males are “female.”
The contract language states that applicants must be “female,” and that “female” means:
“[A]n individual who has fully completed Sex Reassignment Surgery [sic] via Vaginoplasty (from male to female) [sic] with supporting medical documentation and records. Supporting medical documentation must be in the form of the certification attached, signed by the surgeon who performed the surgery and notarized, along with a copy of board certification and a current medical license. No alternative gender affirming [sic] surgery will suffice as acceptable in place of a Vaginoplasty [sic].”
Liberty Counsel, one of the nation’s leading religious liberty law firms, sent a demand letter to the Miss Florida Scholarship Program, Inc., and the Miss America Organization urging them to reconsider. To date, both organizations have refused to reply or budge from the ban.
Not only are the pageants violating the U.S. Constitution, they are also violating Florida law, Liberty Counsel points out.
As the letter states, the MAO contract contradicts Florida’s legal definition of “sex” which classifies people as “either male or female” based on the human body’s “specific reproductive role,” including “sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, and internal and external genitalia present at birth.” Moreover, the contract’s ‘female’ definition also ignores current, enforceable Florida law prohibiting sterilization and castration of minors under the guise of “sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures.”
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“A contract which violates a provision of the Florida Constitution or a Florida statute is void and illegal, and will not be enforced in Florida courts,” wrote Liberty Counsel.
“We commend Kayleigh Bush for taking a stand and refusing to sign the Miss America Organization’s contract that is infused with false gender ideology,” said Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel.
“A contract that defines ‘female’ to include boys 14-18 who have been medically castrated is an abandonment of reality and an endorsement of harming children. Kayleigh Bush should have her crown restored and these types of reprehensible contracts must be stopped.”