GENEVIEVE DE FONTENAY. In a recent press release, Geneviève de Fontenay, former president of Miss France, protested against the possibility of one day seeing transgender candidates participate in the beauty day.
“Inconceivable to modify the rules” of the Miss France contest. This is the message of the press release that Geneviève de Fontenay decided to publish this Saturday, December 11, the day of the big TF1 show and the election of the new beauty representative. The reason ? Geneviève de Fontenay reacted to the announcement of Elisabeth Moreno, Minister for Gender Equality, who announced a few days ago that the participation of transgender candidates in the Miss France contest was “possible”. The Minister had just met the 29 women participating in the election Miss France 2022 and assured on CNews, that opening the election to transgender people was “part of the discussions […] with Alexia Laroche-Joubert “(producer of the competition) and that the government and the production were” under consideration on this subject “.
Geneviève de Fontenay, at 89, said she was “shocked” in a press release published in the name of the “president of the Miss France Committee (and not Sylvie Tellier)” (sic). She denounced “a deep insult to the sixty years of [s]life “during which she” fought to give Miss France a respected and respectable image, which highlights young girls healthy in body and mind! “And to ensure that” Miss “means” Miss ” .
Geneviève de Fontenay also made a point of recalling the first article of the Miss France regulations which indicates that the competition is open to “persons born female, French by birth or naturalized, of a minimum height of 1.70 m without heels, single, neither divorced, nor widowed, nor civil union, without children and not living in cohabitation “. In fact, since she was removed from the Miss France committee, the competition rules have changed and you just need to be registered as “female” and not necessarily “born female” to participate in the competition, reminds the Figaro TV Mag. What does it matter for Geneviève de Fontenay: “Miss France is not an unnatural contest!”, Continues the Lady with the hat who insists that Miss France is a contest which embodies “elegance in a healthy and national atmosphere!” that we must “stop ransacking”.
After having launched Miss Prestige in competition with the contest Miss France, Geneviève de Fontenay said to retire in 2016. In an interview with France Dimanche, the former person in charge of the beauty contest affirmed “to turn the page of the Miss”. She also explained that she found it very difficult to understand the universe in which she has evolved all these years: “It is no longer my world. It is more and more difficult to have candidates. Zahia, muse of Lagerfeld, Rihanna from Dior… Christian Dior must be turning in his grave “.