Miss Universe Canada Finalist Disqualified After Admitting She Was Born a Boy

[TINY]

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[Wanker]

TORONTO - I better quit being a beauty pageant judge. It’s getting way too confusing. Too risky.
The Miss Universe Canada isn’t until May and already a finalist has been disqualified because she was born a he.

Could have fooled me. And you, too, I bet, after looking at the photo. Or at the video with my column on torontosun.com.
Unless you’ve been dead or your girdle is on too tight, you know Jenna Talackova, 23, of Vancouver, didn’t make the cut because, well, because she made the cut.

Now a stunning 6-foot-1 blonde, she started hormone therapy when she was a teenaged boy and had the final, no-going-back surgery when she was 19. She went from outie to innie, you might say.

(Say her name three times fast. Notice anything ironic?)
Jenna Talackova is now, by all legal and visual standards, a woman. But not on the Miss Universe Canada stage.
Rules is rules. You must be under 27, unmarried — and a “natural born” female.

The pageant’s send-off: “We do, however, respect her goals, determination and wish her the best.”
Miss Talackova, on the other hand, says her dismissal is discriminatory and she’s talking to a lawyer. She’s considered herself a girl since age four, which she figures is close enough to “natural born.”
Hmmm. I wonder if that means a 28-year-old divorcee with four kids is close enough.

C’mon, love them or hate them, beauty pageants are what they are.
Should “natural born” women be allowed in transsexual beauty pageants, of which there are many?
What if I want to borrow a bikini and strut my stuff on the Miss Universe stage? If they say no, can I claim discrimination based on sex, age, looks, hair loss, flappy ears and a fallen ass?

I’m not just talking through my hat.
For some reason, people keep asking me to be a beauty pageant judge, including Miss Universe Canada for four years.
I’ve judged everything from Miss Mini Canada to Miss Malta to Miss Hooters. I’ve even scored lovelies on their ability to bait hooks in the Miss DownHome pageant.

I know nothing gooses a beauty pageant like scandal or controversy. In fact, in today’s politically correct media world, they’re usually ignored otherwise.

But let a contestant punch a rival, pose for porn or flub an answer and she’s up to her pretty little hips in free publicity.
The Miss Canada Plus lass I helped choose in 2007 was later snubbed by Miss Toronto Tourism organizers — because she was a witch.
Abracadabra! Before that, no one ever even heard of Miss Canada Plus.

In 2010, a Miss Universe Canada beauty was sent home for appearing semi-nude in Ashley Madison ads.
The press’ ears perked up.
But this is the first time I’ve seen a pageant gripped in gender crisis.
It’s a doozy.

Petitions and transsexual groups are calling for the reinstatement of Miss Talackova among the 60 finalists at the pageant, which runs May 19 at the Bluma Appel Theatre on Front St.
She has become the Joan of Arc of the transgendered set.

And she’s got pageant judges everywhere checking their eyesight. It’s blurring along with today’s gender lines.
I confess, sometimes at various pageants, we whisper among ourselves things like, “She’s a little mannish.” Not that there’s anything amiss about that. Ultimately, I never had any doubt.

I know a natural-born woman when I see one. A few pointers:
She’s not afraid of her feelings, she can multitask, she remembers birthdays, she’s a safer driver and she hates sleeping on the couch.
Oh, and another way to tell:

Her index finger is usually longer than her ring finger.
In most men, it’s the other way around.
I suppose you could have surgery for that, too.

https://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/27/tough-to-make-the-cut-at-beauty-pageants-these-days

 

[tboy]

lol that's a good article....but he does have a point: is a 28 yr old mother of 4 "close enough"? also about the transgender beauty pageants, could a natural born woman enter them?

I think the answer to both those questions is "no", as should be the answer to this one...

 

[buccaneerm]

If nobody said she was born a boy I would never guess! She looks good in the pics tho.

 

[SillyGirl]

Transgender beauty queen allowed to compete in Miss Universe Canada


Christophe Archambault / AFP - Getty


By msnbc.com staff

The Miss Universe Organization will allow Jenna Talackova to compete in the 2012 Miss Universe Canada pageant after all, provided that she meet the legal requirements for being a woman in Canada.

The head of Miss Universe Canada kicked her out two weeks ago after discovering that she is transgender. The official said that Talackova had to have been born a female to participate.
At the time, a brief statement on the front page of the website for , the company that oversees the Miss Universe Canada pageant, stated that Talackova had been removed from the competition “because she did not meet the requirements to compete despite having stated otherwise on her entry form.”

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Jenna Talackova may be allowed to compete in Miss Universe Canada after all. She started hormone therapy at age 14 and underwent surgery at 19.



Talackova then tweeted that she was “disqualified for being born.”


Proving one's gender varies by province in Canada, according to the Vancouver Sun, and .
In 2010, when she was 19, Talackova competed in , a competition for transgender and transsexual people. In an interview posted on YouTube, she said she knew she was a girl at age 4.

Speaking with a girlish lilt, the tall blonde contestant said that she started hormone therapy at age 14 and underwent a sex change surgery at 19.
GLAAD, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy group said the Miss Universe had taken an important first step.
The group released a statement, saying, “The Miss Universe Organization should look to state non-discrimination laws and institutions including the Olympics, NCAA and The CW's America's Next Top Model, which do not discriminate against transgender women."

 

[connoisseur]

She has been reinstated.

https://www.thestar.com/news/articl...ransgendered-woman-to-enter-pageant-after-all

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

All the free publicity is priceless when you think about it.

Me thinks ratings will go through the roof.

 

[HOF]

I predict a second place finish!

 

[Bubba]

I predict a second place finish!

Dick too long? :banghead:

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

Dick too long? :banghead:

She's post-op.

 

[tboy]

They're a bunch of pussies......sorry, not to offend any trannies but that is why they have transgender pageants, female pageants...and (do they even have..) male pageants.....

 

[Guido]

Let's have a poll. Give me a YES or a NO

Would you do her given the chance?

NO

 

[peace]

if she didnt mention that she was born as a boy, would you do her?

 

[Madman]

You didn't answer Guido's question. The fact is you do know, now would you do her?

I'm with Guid, a big NO

 

[LickingGravity]

They're a bunch of pussies......sorry, not to offend any trannies but that is why they have transgender pageants, female pageants...and (do they even have..) male pageants.....

Okay so is now the appropriate time to ask you about
the " t experience " ?

 

[LickingGravity]

I thought it would have added interest if they had kept her identity secret and just announced that one of the contestants was born a male.

That would have be way more interesting.

 

[SillyGirl]

Let's have a poll. Give me a YES or a NO

Would you do her given the chance?

NO

I'd hit that right out of the park. :666:

 

[tboy]

is one of the segments going to be now who can burp the alphabet? heheheheheh

 

[Madman]

I'd hit that right out of the park. :666:

naughty little woman

 

[peace]

joking aside, i think we are entering into a new territory (of course this issue isnt new but often pushed aside) which requires our understanding, support and patience. I think we need to reserve our judgement and try to understand this particular issue before reacting or making insensitive comments.
As of now, according to the article, her passport is identified as female. Her status regarding governement related documents classifies her as female.
In case you are wondering, no I am not transgendered nor a "pussy." Yet I feel for them as our society generally don't accept them. I think people need to learn to accept each individual is different from one another.