Last night I happened to be watching the Miss USA pageant, which, as always, was a campy delight.  Lots of laughs.

But I must say I was delightfully impressed during the question-and-answer portion of the show.

Finalist Miss Rhode Island, 20-year old Olivia Culpo, was asked a tweet sent in by a pageant viewer:

“Would you feel it would be fair that a transgender woman wins the Miss USA title over a natural-born woman?”

Here’s what she answered:

“I do think that that would be fair but I can understand that people would be a little apprehensive to take that road because there is a tradition of natural-born women, but today where there are so many surgeries and so many people out there who have a need to change for a happier life, I do accept that because I believe it’s a free country.”