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Originally Posted by HELPNEEDED
Its complete BS she got kicked out. Obviously, at the age of four she did not choose to be a girl; just one of natures mess ups a girls mind in a male body.
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I don't really understand the concept of being a man in a women's body or a women in a man's body. I'm not trying to be rude or hateful but I honestly truly ignorant of the concept. What does it mean to "feel like a women" or "feel like a man". I try to think about myself and I am a man but as far as I know I don't feel like a man, I just am. For me at least gender is a thing and not an emotional state. Is there another way to explain it?
As for whether or not someone post reassignment surgery should be allowed to do everything that gender I think most of the time it is yes. For the vast, vast majority of things it doesn't matter. Use the bathroom you feel comfortable in, put whatever gender you want on any application forms, call yourself by whatever set of pronouns you choose to and others should call you by your chosen set of pronouns. But when it comes to competitions I start to think that unfair advantages could be gained. The olympics come to mind as an area where I think I would object to a transgendered person competing in a gender other than their genetic gender.
As far as this case goes it is a beauty pagent. By definition it is discriminatory. It is designed to judge a person on a purely arbitrary set of definitions. Too Black, Too pale skinned, too fat, flat chested, funny teeth, etc etc. It by definition excludes people who were born different.