The Miss America Organization announced on Tuesday that it was ending the swimsuit portion of its competition, a sign that the pageant is trying to evolve in the #MeToo era.

“We are not going to judge you on your outward appearance,” Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor who was Miss America in 1989 and is now the organization’s chairwoman, said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

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