Transgendered beauty queen banned from Miss Universe Canada

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

Miss Talackova is obtaining legal counsel and is expected to make a statement
next week, said her spokesman, Rory Richards.

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crown, called the decision outdated and discriminatory.

Some countries have their candidates undergo cosmetic surgery, she said, so
what’s wrong with sex-change surgery “because in your heart and soul
you believe yourself to be a woman?”

A Vancouver transgendered activist, Jamie Lee Hamilton, said Miss Talackova
could sue for violation of her human rights.

“She was born with male genitalia and is being treated as a second-class
citizen,” she said. “Under the eyes of the law and the medical
profession, she’s a legal female.”

Mr Trump’s office said he was not commenting on the matter.

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 Miss Talackova.

“Even though she had surgery and hormones, her DNA is still that of a
man, his reproductive system is still that of a man,” Ms Landolt said.

“To consider yourself Miss Universe is to actually ask for more pain,
suffering and rejection,” she said. “I’m sorry this person has put
himself (or) herself though this.”

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