Kayleigh Bush- Family Advocate
"Kayleigh Bush defended all women by refusing to surrender her religious beliefs that there are only two genders, male and female. She gave up Miss America competition rather than compromise her beliefs. For that selfless act we present her Family Advocate Award, " says Eugene Delgaudio, president of Public Advocate.
............Kayleigh Bush was crowned Miss North Florida in September 2024. She told TMZ that she was stripped of her title after refusing to sign a revised contract from the organization.
"I was unwilling to agree that little boys can become girls and I took a stand against the Miss America organization and lost my crown as a result of that," she told the outlet in an interview published on Wednesday.....................
Bush told TMZ that she took a stand after Miss America changed the rules after she won the Miss North Florida title.............
"I was asked to sign a contract that was different than the first one that I had agreed to, because they had changed it four weeks after I rightly won," she said. "And so I didn't lose my crown because I broke a rule, I lost the crown because I was unwilling to rewrite the truth."
She said she and her mother had immediately raised their concerns about the new contract.
"We got on a conference call immediately with one of the directors for the Miss America organization," she said. "And weeks and weeks and weeks of pleading with them, sending videos, sending letters, emails, demand letters through Liberty Counsel because they picked up my case and they just said 'no, no, no,' and they doubled down."