Transgender model 'broke boundaries' with Miss Netherlands beauty pageant win
It's the first time in the Dutch pageant's 94-year history that a trans woman has been crowned winner.
"You're living through a really intense but also energising period. And you just want to finish the great final with other contestants.Rikkie says she dreamed of winning pageants like this as a child."And now I'm standing here as a strong and empowering and confident woman. I'm really proud of that. "They [people] told me 'she's a pretty girl but she can go to the trans pageantry because it [Miss Netherlands] is for real women'.
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