Transgender woman may be allowed to enter Miss Universe competition

The disqualification won Miss Talackova widespread sympathy and raised the
question of whether the pageant has the right to decide who is female.

Her change of gender was hardly a secret before the event because she had
competed in the 2010 Tiffany Miss International Queen Competition for
transgendered and transsexual women in Pattaya, Thailand. In a video
interview for that pageant, she said she had lived her life as a female
since age four, began hormone therapy at 14 and changed sex at 19.

“I regard myself as a woman with a history,” she said.

Connie McNaughton, Miss World Canada in 1984 and first runner-up for the world
crown, had called the decision outdated and discriminatory. Professor
Patrizia Gentile of Ottawa’s Carleton University, who did a dissertation on
beauty pageants, equated the ban with the exclusion of blacks and Jews from
pageants in earlier times.

From the conservative side of Canadian society, Gwen Landolt, national vice
president of REAL Women of Canada, said the pageant was simply being
realistic in barring Ms Talackova.

Source: agencies

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