As predictable as the sun coming up – Trans Woman Crowned Miss San Francisco For First Time Ever, and Yes She Is Eligible to Be Miss America

25-year-old Monroe Lace has been crowned the first trans Miss San Francisco in the pageant’s 99-year history, and she will now compete for the title of Miss California, and possibly even Miss America.

We don’t do much pageant coverage here at SFist, or at least, we haven’t since the days when it was Heklina throwing filthy drag pageants. But given some recent developments, we must explain that there is such a thing as the Miss San Francisco pageant (also a Miss Golden Gate), which are preliminaries where the winners go on to the Miss California pageant, and that winner goes on to the big Miss America competition.

The Bay Area has crowned its new Miss San Francisco, Monroe Lace. The first transgender woman to earn this title in the organization’s 99-year history. pic.twitter.com/ZGsMS6ToUE

— OAKLAND STATE OF MIND (@YayAreaNews) March 28, 2023

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