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Old 03-31-2012, 02:54 AM   #1
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Default Transgender "woman" barred from Miss Canada content

A 23-year-old man who had a sex change to become a woman can't compete in a beauty pageant. *Yawn* Ordinarily I would dismiss such a whacked story into the discarded bin of weirdness, but these two lines caught my eye:

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

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Prof. 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. “We’re seeing more and more transgendered women wanting to be beauty contestants,” she said. “The rule is incongruent with the culture.”
If you're not seeing the amusing gay marriage parallels, you're not looking very hard.

I think MLK would be gratified to know his hard work would eventually be used to justify the destruction of any and every societal norm.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...d=pm_world_pop
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You are NOT A WOMAN, even if you've altered your organs.
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Old 03-31-2012, 05:31 AM   #3
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ah yes, the miracles of modern medicine.



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Did we ever settle whether she would be asked to sit in RS or EQ?

I would think it would have to be RS.
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