'This is not America', she told Le Monde. 'People who draft these laws have never come to a contest', said Caroline, mother of two participants, Marie aged 10 and Laura, 11. Little beauty pageants and their mothers are prepared to fight with him. The organizer said he will fight the measure and instead call for tighter rules regulating beauty contests. 'There are no swimsuits nor makeup in my shows', said Le Parmentier -contrary to beauty pageants for minors in the United States. Participants include 40 to 50 minors who dress up as princesses hoping to be elected as the most beautiful, like their oldest counterparts. The two beauty pageants are the only ones authorized nationally for minors since 1989. 'Just as gay marriage has been approved, beauty pageants for little girls are banned, it is incomprehensible', Michel Le Parmentier, the organizer of Mini-miss model France 2013 (for little girls aged five to 11) and Minis teen-junior France 2013 (12 to 17 years) told Le Monde. The draft law will now go to the National Assembly for final approval. The Senate adopted the measure on September 17 as part of a draft law on gender equality. (by Aurora Bergamini) (ANSAmed) - PARIS - France's junior beauty pageants are protesting against a draft law banning beauty contests for girls under 16 years of age over concerns they turn children into erotic objects and make them grow up too soon.

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