Beauty Pageants Have First Amendment Right to Limit Contestants to “Natural Born Females”

So holds the Ninth Circuit; Hamilton plays a major role.

We conclude that the district court was correct to grant the Pageant’s motion for summary judgment, but reach this conclusion not under the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of association but rather under the First Amendment’s protection against compelled speech….

https://reason.com/volokh/2022/11/02/beauty-pageants-have-constitutional-right-to-limit-contestants-to-natural-born-females/