Transgender Miss Universe Canada contestant loses

Transgendered beauty queen Jenna Talackova reacts as she makes the top 20 cut in the Miss Universe Canada pageant in Toronto on May 19, 2012. / AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young

(AP) TORONTO - The first-ever transgender contestant to compete in the Miss Universe Canada pageant has lost her bid to win the title.

Jenna Talackova, 23, competed with 61 contestants Saturday night. She was among the final 12 contestants.

Talackova, who was born a male, underwent a sex change four years ago. The Vancouver, British Columbia, native was initially denied entry to Canada's pageant because she was not a natural-born female. Donald Trump, who runs the Miss Universe Organization, subsequently overruled that decision.

The 6-foot-1 (1.8-meter-1 centimeter) blond beauty strutted the runway and competed in the bikini and formal wear contests.

The winner advances to the international Miss Universe competition in December.

[matt6052]

It is an interesting issue because it challenges exactly what is being judged in the contest.

I recall some decades ago that a high school Homecoming Queen was denied her title because she was a teen mother, and her school administrators ruled that only virgins were eligible to be Homecoming Queen. As with that misguided decision, excluding a participant who the physicians deem a female and who can compete would be foolish.

Apparently they permit lesbians and non-virgins to participate already, although we can't know how they judge these traits. All of this means that what is being judged in a pagent is not the moral or medical suitability of a contestant for sexual intercourse with the judges or general public, but looks, talent, and poise.

How exactly does a contestant's medical history enter into the formal competition? Is it a medical disability? If a medical team endorses the change of her identification records from male to female, and those records are private, then does it enter through... the talent compition? The contestant's auto-biography? Where?

[BigMykul]

by Transatlantique May 20, 2012 8:57 AM EDT
If survival is so important to you, shouldn't you be cleaning your guns and stocking your food pantry instead of reading CBS's entertainment news?
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Already done.

[mskittyrocks]

Okay, now try reading a book about transsexuality.

[Transatlantique]

Whats the big deal? Many women dress and act like men all of the time and they are completely accepted. Now this person is legally female, and probably the only reason she lost was because of her male to female status. This is proof that actually women indirectly run the world, not men.

[livingtxlife]

I think the fact that she was able to compete means she won this round.

[saucymugwump]

Ms Transgender's preparation includes two tasks women never have to perform: back-shaving and nose hair removal.

Lola, Lo-lo-lo-lo-lola ...

[Transatlantique]

No, transgendered people don't have to do this because the hormone regime they are on causes those typically male features to disappear. Now, you do the same.

[mskittyrocks]

Stereotype much? Maybe you should look in the mirror - I'm sure that's worth a bigger laugh.

[BigMykul]

I wrote a comment, but didn't see it show up.
What's really funny, is that when society breaks down (like all have done throughout time). We won't have time to worry about these stupid issues. Survival is a 24/7 job.

[Transatlantique]

If survival is so important to you, shouldn't you be cleaning your guns and stocking your food pantry instead of reading CBS's entertainment news?

[mskittyrocks]

Yes, society is broken down by transphobic people.

[BigMykul]

by barcar55 May 20, 2012 1:40 AM EDT
Sex change doesn't make the shim a female. He should not been allowed to compete. Donald Trump apparently likes drag queens.
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This is not a "drag-queen". She is a transgendered person. She has had the gentalia that was born with altered to another. A drag queen may or may not be gay or even consider transgender modification. A drag queen is a male cross-dresser.
I do think she can compete. She looks good, and I bet if most of you nay-sayers met her in a bar, you would try to pick her up. Now lie and say you wouldn't.

This woman chose what she wanted to make herself happy. Let her live her life, and quit hating so much.
If it hadn't been disclosed about her transgender issue, would she have won???

[Mike_in_USA]

The whole point is he/she is transgendered. Winning was only extra.

[rondivoo]

Ewwwww....look at its forhead....all wrinkled, the way men tend to furrow their foreheads for some reason. And the nose has obviously been worked on. Not a pretty person.

[Transatlantique]

Nope. This is the same expression any woman who misses a half off sale on Prada would make. If it hadn't been mentioned that she is transgendered, I would never have known, and neither would you.

[mskittyrocks]

You're the it and you're secretly upset because she wouldn't give you the time of day.

[hypnotoad72]

And yet nobody minds (the certain individuals) that get facelift after facelift after facelift, and do note I am trying to be mature enough not to namedrop, especially as some of those individuals - unlike Jenna - are true trash...

[nojoy01]

"The 6-foot-1 (1.8-meter-1 centimeter)..."
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The above measurement is not only confusing (is that supposed to be 1.8 meters minus 1 centimeter or 1.8 meters plus 1 centimeter) but any way you interpret it, it's also wrong. 6 foot and 1 inch tall translates to 185.47 centimeters, or 1.85.47 meters, or 1 meter and 84.47 centimeters. Way to go CBS

[veronafoamer]

It don't matter-apparently he can be whatever he pretends to be.If it was 8 meters you just have to accept it.

[mskittyrocks]

Veronafoamer - she isn't pretending - she's just being herself. She altered her body to match her brain. Please get an education.