DO YOU THINK CANADIAN BEAUTY PAGEANT OFFICIALS SHOULD ALLOW TRANSSEXUAL TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FINALS?
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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.
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."
After being kicked out of the pageant, Talackova, whose twitter account has since been locked, tweeted, "I'm disqualified, however I'm not giving up. I'm not going to just let them disqualify me over discrimination." Online support for the beauty queen is growing. So far, over twenty-one thousand people have signed a petition demanding she be allowed to compete. It reads, "She is a woman and deserves to be treated as any other woman would be."
Talackova, who says she is not doing interviews until she consults a lawyer, describes herself as, "a woman with a past."
Do you think Jenna Talackova should be allowed to compete in the Miss Universe Canada pageant? PLEASE LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS
- FAWKES' NOOSE ~ ΔTX 2012/03/27 15:21:45YES, SHE IS A WOMAN NOW, NOT A DRAG QUEEN
+1Holy Smokes! Jenna should share some of her meds with Ann Coulter.reply - Balladeer-PWCM-POTL 2012/03/27 15:15:08YES, SHE IS A WOMAN NOW, NOT A DRAG QUEENWhy not...the TGs i have known are in essence , women even down to subtle things like handwriting...they aren't the sl#ts portrayed on the Jerry Springer Show. Again I have stated that it's ironic.that this happens in canada...Canada that believes they are our moral superior...Ontario Court believes Prostitution should be in legal brothels...but when it came to standing up for what they say they believe in....they have feet of clayreply
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I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that Donald trump owns the National competition.reply
- Ballade... Ann 2012/03/29 06:02:07maybe...still it warms my heart to see the self-rightious canadians hoisted on their own pitardreply
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I hear you there. Thanks for your input.reply
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YES, SHE IS A WOMAN NOW, NOT A DRAG QUEENMy opinion would have to go with let her stay! She has gotten this far and no one has said anything before, now it is coming to the finals and all of a sudden it becomes an issue? She is a Woman NOW, she has gone through all the changes to get to were she feels herself. Regardless of how any of us may feel on someones PERSONAL CHOICE, she is what she is now. I look at it as she is not some guy dressed up as a woman trying to make it as a beauty queen, if she did not have to show birth certificate and that to ENTER in the first place they would of never known...again back to she got this far!reply
