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Miss Universe Canada Disqualifies Transsexual Canidate
Topic Started: Mar 26 2012, 07:25 PM (82 Views)
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Miss Universe Canada officials have banned 23-year-old transsexual Jenna Talackova from participating in the pageant finals to be held in Toronto in May, 2012. The Vancouver contestant was one of sixty-five women chosen to compete in the national contest (which is owned by Donald Trump). The Daily Mail Reports that Denis Davila, national director of Miss Universe Canada, asserts that every contestant must be a "naturally born female." Critics of the decision claim that the rules do not specifically address sex change or plastic surgery.

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The statuesque blonde Talackova is calling it a human rights issue. She says that she knew she was a girl by age four, started hormone therapy at fourteen, and had sex reassignment surgery at nineteen. She's previously competed in both transsexual and women's beauty pageants. "All I can say is that they disqualified me because I'm not 'natural born,' she told the National Post. "[That] doesn't make sense because since I was conscious, I always felt this way."


This is lame. I think she should be able to compete.

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The heck is your problem with Canada today?!

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Edited by MarcusOrion, Mar 26 2012, 07:32 PM.
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I swear I'm not picking things that are from Canada on purpose XD
Tell your people to stop being mean to the GLBT community.
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We let them get married, why isn't that enough?!

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Cause you don't let them compete in beauty pageants! lol
I actually think that the Miss Universe board is a combo of a lot of countries, so I don't blame Canada.
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