- Jenna Talackova
After much controversy, transgender beauty pageant contestant Jenna Talackova was last night paraded among 61 other contestants in the 2012 Miss Universe Canada pageant.
The 23-year-old ousted 50 other
contestants to make it to the final 12 contestants before failing to
make the final five in the glitzy pageant.
26-year-old Sahar Biniaz claimed the
crown and now advances to the international Miss Universe competition in
December. Talackova was however one of the four contestants named Miss Congeniality.
Controversy sparked up some months ago
when Talackova who underwent a sex change in the past was initially
denied entry to Canada’s pageant because she was not born female. Donald Trump,
who runs the Miss Universe Organization, subsequently overruled that
decision last month and allowed the Vancouver, British Columbia native
to compete following protests on the internet.
The 6-foot-1 blond beauty, who towered
over her fellow contenders while competing in the bikini and formal wear
contests, garnered most of the attention Saturday night, soliciting
loud cheering and howls each time she appeared on stage.
‘She’s still a winner as far as I’m
concerned. She won an ‘herstoric’ civil rights victory and that I think
is frankly more important than anything, any victory she would win, even
representing Miss Canada’, Talackova’s high profile lawyer Gloria Allred told The Associated Press.
The top 12
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