In photos: Nitasha crowned the first ever Miss Transqueen India

In some great news, India has crowned its first ever trans beauty queen in a pageant called Miss Transqueen India. Nitasha, the 26-year-old winner from Kolkata, is pursuing her MBA. 

The first and second runners up were Loiloi from Manipur and Ragasya from Chennai, respectively. There were 16 finalists in the pageant, some from different Indian states, out of the 1500-odd transwomen who were part of the journey through various stages. 

“The winner will go to Thailand for Miss International Queen, the first runner-up will compete at Miss Transsexual Australia. We are looking for another international pageant so that we can send the second runner-up too,” pageant organiser Reena Rai told IANS. 

As this was a first, and the crown didn't have a previous owner, Miss Transsexual Australia 2017 Laeticia Phylliscia Raveena stepped in to crown Nitasha. 

“This is the first organized pageant on a national level for the transwomen after the Nalsa judgement so, I strongly believe that this is going to empower transsexuals and would aspire them to dream of winning the crown and representing their country and community on an international platform,” said t ransgender social activist and jury member Gauri Sawant. 

We sure hope she's right.