Booted out for being born a boy: Transgender beauty queen kicked out of Miss Universe
Jenna Talackova
A beauty pageant has booted a contestant out the competition after discovering the buxom blonde was born a boy.
The Miss Universe Canada organizers threw out Jenna Talackova when they found out she had undergone surgery to become a woman.
The transgendered contestant had already successfully reached the finals in the Miss Vancouver pageant before she was banned from continuing in the competition.
Beauty queen: Jenna Talackova, fourth from right, has competed in a Miss Universe contest before
Although the pageant organizers described Talackova as a ‘real girl’ they disqualified her arguing that the rules state that each contestant must be a ‘naturally born female.’
According to Denis Davila, the national director of Miss Universe Canada, Talackova claimed on her registration form she was born a female.
But becoming suspicious Davila confronted the 23-year-old about her sex change and the contestant admitted she was actually born a male.
Despite her pleas to stay in the pageant her confession meant that she was pulled from the contest that same day.
‘She feels like a real girl and she is a real girl. She didn’t expect people to question it,’ Davila told thestar.com.
‘She was hoping we could put her back in the competition, but the rules are very clear and there’s no way we can go back on it.’
The decision from the Miss Universe Canada pageant, which is owned by Donald Trump, has sparked outrage with people calling for Jenna to be reinstated into the contest.
Definitely she should be allowed. She is a BEAUTY why not to participate after all look at what she is now and what does she represent, or maybe the officials are afraid that she might win over naturally born WOMEN.