The Miss Italy pageant will continue to only accept biological women in its competition ahead of Miss Universe.

Official Patron of the pageant, Patrizia Mirigliani, referred to the recent acceptance of transgender beauty pageant contestants as "a bit absurd" in an interview with Radio Cusano.

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"Lately, beauty contests have been trying to make the news by also using strategies that I think are a bit absurd," Mirigliani said last week. "Since it was born, my competition has foreseen in its regulation the clarification according to which one must be a woman from birth. Probably because, even then, it was foreseen that beauty could undergo modifications, or that women could undergo modifications, or that men could become women."

Meanwhile, the Netherlands crowned its first transgender pageant queen to represent the country at Miss Universe this year. Rikkie Valerie Kolle, 22, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, bested nine other women to become the third transgender contestant in Miss Universe's 72-year history.

Transgender contestants have been permitted to participate in the Miss Universe Pageant system since 2012. At that time, former President Donald Trump owned Miss Universe and welcomed the first transgender Miss Canada. So far, a transgender contestant has yet to win the title of Miss Universe.

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Miss Italy is slated to take place on Oct. 8.

The global pageant is set for El Salvador, sometime after the other 37 participating countries crown their respective representatives — the last of which will occur in November.