Miss Netherlands: Transgender model 'broke boundaries' with beauty pageant win

Rikkie Valerie Kolle has made past arsenic the archetypal transgender pistillate to triumph Miss Netherlands.

It's the archetypal clip successful the Dutch pageant's 94-year past that a trans pistillate has been crowned winner.

It means the 22-year-old volition beryllium the 2nd openly trans rival to instrumentality portion successful Miss Universe successful December this year.

She's been speaking to BBC Newsbeat astir beauty, backlash and breaking boundaries.

From the infinitesimal her sanction was called arsenic the winner, Rikkie says she simply couldn't judge it.

"I was successful afloat disbelief the infinitesimal they called my name, I was similar 'oh my god, is this truly happening'?" she says.

"You're surviving done a truly aggravated but besides energising period. And you conscionable privation to decorativeness the large last with different contestants.

"I conscionable enjoyed each azygous infinitesimal of it."

Rikkie says she dreamed of winning pageants similar this arsenic a child.

"The travel started arsenic a ace insecure small boy," she tells Newsbeat.

"And present I'm lasting present arsenic a beardown and empowering and assured woman. I'm truly arrogant of that.

"And that I ever got the enactment astir maine from my household and my friends and my chosen queer family. I cognize a batch of radical don't person that."

Rikkie says she's had a premix of affirmative and antagonistic comments from each implicit the satellite earlier and aft she won the crown connected Saturday - including being told she shouldn't adjacent enter.

"They [people] told maine 'she's a beauteous miss but she tin spell to the trans pageantry due to the fact that it [Miss Netherlands] is for existent women'.

"So past I'm similar 'OK you're calling maine a beauteous girl, but besides telling maine that I'm not a existent woman'.

"For me, it's to interruption boundaries and to measurement up and spell to a quality pageantry and archer my story, beryllium Rikkie, bask each azygous infinitesimal of it.

"The pageantry gives maine a signifier to speech astir what I privation to alteration successful nine and I deliberation that's a truly important thing."

And Rikkie has besides experienced antagonistic comments from person to home.

"In the Netherlands, I besides got a batch of backlash," she says.

"It's besides showing that we're inactive not determination successful the Netherlands and that the inclusivity is connected the bare minimum now.

"I thought we were mode further than we are. But it lone gives maine much inspiration to measurement up my goals and to execute what I privation to bash now."

And her effect to the hateful comments?

"I privation to convey each the haters due to the fact that they've lone fixed maine a bigger platform. And you won't get escaped of me.

"For each the different countries that inactive person this [hate comments], I privation to accidental that we are not alone."

As Miss Netherlands, Rikkie is present entered into December's Miss Universe contention - which was bought by trans businesswoman Anne Jakapong Jakrajutatip past year.

"I'm going to person a batch of training, for illustration catwalk and preparing myself and what I'm going to say.

"So I'm truly excited for that."

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