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Miss Universe disqualifies transgender contestant
The national director of Miss Universe Canada says pageant organizers were simply following the rules when they pulled a transgendered finalist from the competition, flatly denying Jenna Talackova’s claim that she was a victim of discrimination.
“We have to have the facts straight. There is no discrimination here at all,” Denis Davila told CTV News. “You can look at it the way she wants to look at it … but we all have to follow the same rules.”
With her long blonde locks and even longer legs, Talackova looks every inch the beauty queen.
But the Vancouver native was born a male, a fact she failed to note on her entry form for this year’s Miss Universe Canada pageant.
The rules for the pageant franchise state that each contestant must be a “naturally born female.”
Talackova claimed she was born a female, but an organizer grew suspicious and confronted her about her past. When she admitted her birth gender last week, she was disqualified.
The Maryland Senate this evening approved a bill legalizing marriage equality in the state and the governor has already promised to sign it.
The measure passed 25-22. This makes Maryland the eighth state to legalize marriage equality - the fourth to do so in the last year.
YES! YES! YES!
NUMBER 8, FOLKS
(via leylainwonderland)
Beautiful.
Human rights are gay rights and gay rights are human rights
Such a historic speech
Its been a long time coming, but the policy Dont Ask Dont Tell - that prevented gay men and women from serving in the military openly - was finally abolished two hours ago.
This is a big step the country has taken for the LGBT community. It gave me hope when it was repealed last year. Hope that this place we all share is willing to change for the better. Theres still ways to go, but this is great news. I was waiting till 12 to congratulate a couple of my friends and post this. People in the east coast have 30 minutes still, but its coming :-)
Congratulations! Civil your rights will be.
