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Transgender model loses bid to be Miss Universe, but wins big in courage

The transgender model who was initially disqualified, has failed to enter the final five in Canada's Miss Universe pageant.

Although Jenna Talackova, 23, did not emerge the winner, she garnered most of the attention and attracted the loudest cheers with her on-stage appearances.

The first-ever transgender contestant to compete in the Miss Universe Canada pageant, Talackova was previously disqualified from the contest because of her sex change.

Despite being born with male genitals, Talackova said in a 2010 interview that she knew she was a woman from a young age, began hormone therapy at 14 and had surgery to change her gender when she was 19.

Talackova was later reinstated in the pageant, due to a sudden decision by the organisers.

More than 28,000 fans from Vancouver had signed an online petition demanding her reinstatement.

Said STOMPer TSRex:

"Looks like she got her chance but didn't cut it.

"But I must commend her for being courageous and self-confident enough to join the contest, even if she didn't win.

"At least it was a fair contest!"

Images 1 to 43 are of Jenna Talackova, images 44 to 63 are of Nong Poy, and images 64 to 87 are of Kayoh Satoh.

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heartbeat55 said   on 1 Aug, 2012   Report as offensive  
Im rather disappointed with S'pore & the Ms World Organisers for allowing Transgerder in future to participate in all future pagaents,worst of all for S'pore to also follow suit.Gone are the days of natural female beauties.Niw with all the Plastice surgery for beauty enhancement plus transgender .Im no longer to watch pagaents or think anything about such contests.It's also unfair to teh natural born female participants as the transgender will have an edge over them as most will definitely have better features & figure due to beauty enhancement.So we shall call it a Miss S'pore Transgender Contest