Should transgender contestants be banned from beauty pageants?

but she is not gay. she is transgender. that is not the same as being gay she is only gay if she is attracted to other women. but I doubt the competition specifies which gender it's competitors should be attracted to. and why is it unfair on other contestants? surely they have the advantage, having not been born in the wrong body. if, after gender reassignment, they are still pretty enough to win, good for them.

having both is hermaphrodite. transgender is to be born with the wrong reproductive organs. where the mind is one but the body is the other. the term is used both before and after gender reassignment surgery. Gay is if you are a man who is attracted to men or a woman who is attracted to women.

he may not be gay but still he is a man...and a man is not allowed to join womens pageant..am i right? by the way whats the difference between gay and transgender? is transgender having two reproductive organs at the same time?

I hope the transgender's beauty pageant organizers will have also international competition like miss universe too so that they will not mix with women.

I guess we'll see that in the future too. These days nothing is impossible.So that our own transgenders could compete and show to the world that we have all what it takes to be a winner.

Yhea that's why they have to disqualified him because he hide it.

Then he/she has nothing to complain about and it should not even be negotiated.

I agree with you Kshongmo, it doesnt matter what the Miss refers to. I respect those transgenders for having the courage to step out on the stage and show their beauty. What could qualify someone being called "miss" if someone feels like a miss and wants to be considered a miss, then they should be a miss.

Yhea your right only the organizers must set their own rules if it is for female, male and transgenders they are all have right to join in their own beauty contest.

...And they have their own pageant as well all members are transgenders.

But they DO change what they were born as...at least many of them do.

I totally agree with this. She was born a man but is now a woman, I really don't understand why some people see her as having an advantage over the other contestants. If anything she would be at a disadvantage, surely? As for the argument that it is not fair because she has had surgery whereas the other contestants are naturally beautiful, it wouldn't surprise me if most of the other contestants had undergone some form of cosmetic procedure. What I find most amusing is how these pageants have been stressing that the women aren't just judged on their faces and bodies but on the beauty of their minds and personalities as well. It seems to me that this contestant wasn't judged on any of these. In her mind, this contestant has felt like a female pretty much from birth and now has the female physical attributes too and yet the pageant is judging her based on the body she was born with!

I saw in the news recently the organization of Miss Universe Pageant are accepting transgenders to be part of the Miss Universe on 2013. But still some candidates are protesting.

definitely a woman. it's not her fault if she was born with the wrong body. and like I said, if despite that, she's still attractive enough for the competition, then she's acheived even more than the other contestants. maybe their feelings are hurt by being beaten at being feminine and pretty by someone that was born in a male body.

Hello, rn3421 and Galena. There's nothing wrong with your views and mine as well. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion.

I think the question here is whether you view this contestant as a male or female. You refer to 'him' whereas I would refer to 'her'. She has thought of herself as female almost from birth and identified herself as such from the age of 4. She then underwent gender reassignment surgery at the age of 19. The way I see it, even if people refuse to refer to her as female, she's certainly more female than male. To me, if someone was born a female but identified themselves as male then underwent gender re-assignment surgery, they should be allowed to take part in basketball and boxing. Transgender athletes and sports-people do exist, including US basketball player Kye Allums.

I agree with you Kitty individual has their own beauty and why there's must be a competition with lots of artificial within the contestants. Hi adialily, I think if they have the surgeries still they are born male, and being a female it is not fair with the other female contestant. He/she has a beauty because of the surgery but the true female is in her natural beauty. You saw the other contestant and looks like a male to you because he is almost perfect because of the surgery you can see the difference of the artificial looks he has.

I could see if the contestant was a cross-dresser instead because then he'd still be male in a female competition, but the contestant already got the surgeries making them female which means its a female competing against other females. I think people confuse crossdresser with transgender a lot. Seriously, if she never said anything and no one else did then no one would have ever realized that was she was born male. When I saw the picture of her with another contestant, I thought the other contestant was the male. You are right though. If people love these competitions then they should go back to being natural beauties. Not half starved women desperately trying to fit into evening gowns, add 10 pounds of make-up, smiling in a bikini, give some half-wit overused answer like they want 'world peace' when more than half of them could care less, etc. And just think women are doing this to their toddlers as well. I bet the only people really protesting though are the jealous women and men who'd be upset if they were 'pleasuring' themselves during the swimsuit or talent competitions.

jenna also her limitations but since this is her dream she must go on and fight for it.