Posted on 03/25/2012 10:32:12 PM PDT by Steelfish
Miss Universe Canada Organizers Boot Transgender Contestant [Pic in URL]
The organizers for Miss Universe Canada will not allow a transgender contestant to participate in the May pageant, saying that although she may feel like a woman, rules say she must be born a female, the Toronto Star reported.
Denis Davila, the national director of the Miss Universe Canada franchise, told the Vancouver Sun that the contestant, Jenna Talackova, a native of Vancouver, British Columbia, wrote on her registration that she was born female. He suspected that she was born male and asked her about it earlier this month. She was dismissed that day.
Davila said that the Miss Universe franchise requires that contestants be “naturally born female,” according to the Sun. “She feels like a real girl and she is a real girl. She didn’t expect people to question it,” Davila told the Sun. “She was hoping we could put her back in the competition, but the rules are very clear and there’s no way we can go back on it.”
He added: “She was excited about the competition. Just because she can’t compete doesn’t mean we stopped loving her.” Those rules are not mentioned on the Miss Universe website, which states that contestants must be unmarried and 18 years or older. Mara Keisling, who heads the National Center for Transgender Equality based in Washington, D.C., told the Toronto Star that she questioned the decision.
"From what I've read, it doesn't sound like they had any rules," Keisling said. "It seems like they made them up on the fly to disqualify her. It makes you wonder what they're afraid of."
A change.org petition initiated for Talackova quoted her Twitter feed, which has since been hidden.
Talackova wrote, according to the petition, that she was “disqualified for being born.”
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Please!!! No pictures.
Actually he/she doesn’t look too bad in the pic.
If she’s able to even apply for the Miss Universe pageant, she/he probably looks like a woman. I’m surprised they do cup-checks.
well, she can always become a Girl Scout instead
Pic’s a bit hot. Hell of a lot beter than most female dems in DC.
Does Laz do Game Changers?
“Cup Checks” Now I am weirded out.
“naturally born female,”
I like that!....Natural look is best.
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We should put all of these freaks on a rocket and send them to one of the moons of Jupiter.
I beg to differ, he may "feel like"(to herself)a real girl but he is still a man. A simple DNA test would prove it. A few hormone injections and some mutilated body parts do not a real girl make.
First of all. He is still a man. That said. His doctors did a really really really god job.
There’s some thought that there may be life on one of the moons of Jupiter, and if so, the inhabitants might form quite an unpleasant impression of us if we were to use their home as a dumping ground for our trash...
Lol, that sounded terrible. You know, I think of myself as a reasonably tolerant person, what people do in their bedroom isn’t even remotely interesting to me as long as nobody is getting hurt and nothing illegal is taking place, but trannies really bother the hell out of me.
I know their humans too, and we’re all God’s children and all of that, but there’s just something about seeing a guy prancing around in a skirt that makes me want to throw up.
If that makes me a bigot, well, so be it I guess.
No matter how much surgry and hormons he(?) . . . uh . . . she(?) . . . uh . . . it(?) has, The DNA will always be male. Learned that watching ‘South Park’.
Whoops, I meant, “they’re.” Sorry, it’s late and my grammar starts going downhill after midnight...
I wouldn’t post the pic. The surgeon and dieting did an adequate job on the body, but the face is far too manly for my tastes. I can’t imagine anyone calling him pretty.
Just wait until the swimsuit contest!!
What if they can't produce a birth certificate?
Will an electronically generated one do?
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