Jenna Talackova, center with fellow contestants at the Miss International Queen pageant in Thailand in 2010.
(Cchristophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images)
There’s a new beauty pageant scandal to catch up on, and it’s a doozy: Jenna Talackova was abruptly disqualified from the Miss Canada Universe pageant — a Trump-owned feeder for the Miss Universe show — after word got around that she was born male. Talackova, 22, has said she began hormone treatments at 14 and had sex-change surgery at 19. She told the Vancouver Sun she considered her ouster a “human rights” issue. Pageant reps said only that she did not meet competition requirements.
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