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LChoy · 03-28-2012, 07:29 AM

I'm somewhat torn with this

Technically speaking, the rules did state the participant had to be born female, whether we agree with it or not. If the wording was just participants must be female aged 18 and above....then it would have been fine since by legal definition in Canada, she is female (her birth records and official documents are changed post surgery)

Being born male before transitioning, is definitely not an advantage in my opinion. She is very fortunate that she started transitioning early to be able to develop her feminine characteristics, but there are still many things that can't be changed including bone structure and muscle definition.

Echoed by many here, this is fundamentally a beauty competition. She was pretty enough to make it through the first several rounds and was on the cusp of making it to the finals before her biological gender was revealed. Unless the competition was all natural, she essentially just had more work done than the other contestants. I do imagine that the level of uneasy in the other women who may have lost out to her may be feeling

Lastly, based on experience in University psychology, and personal experience with transgendered people, She is female. Some genetic and developmental switch just didn't turn on at the right time. If you cut open a male and a female brain (in the lab) and compared the two, there are differences between them. In transexuals, their brains do resemble more closely to female brains than males. This leads to gender being something more of a sliding scale than a binary switch.

While the male population that cross dress is quite high, those that essentally go all the way are very rare. As someone I knew once told me, most people can't understand what they are feeling. It would be equivalent of starting the day tomorrow with everyone in the whole world suddenly treating you and expecting you to be the opposite sex. It sort of like playing a role, but never feeling like you are being true to yourself. Also, gender and sexuality are different things. This isn't a thrill or sexual thing, but a life thing.

Anyways, that's my 2 cents

03-28-2012, 07:29 AM	#27
LChoy First Line Centre Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Toronto Exp:	I'm somewhat torn with this Technically speaking, the rules did state the participant had to be born female, whether we agree with it or not. If the wording was just participants must be female aged 18 and above....then it would have been fine since by legal definition in Canada, she is female (her birth records and official documents are changed post surgery) Being born male before transitioning, is definitely not an advantage in my opinion. She is very fortunate that she started transitioning early to be able to develop her feminine characteristics, but there are still many things that can't be changed including bone structure and muscle definition. Echoed by many here, this is fundamentally a beauty competition. She was pretty enough to make it through the first several rounds and was on the cusp of making it to the finals before her biological gender was revealed. Unless the competition was all natural, she essentially just had more work done than the other contestants. I do imagine that the level of uneasy in the other women who may have lost out to her may be feeling Lastly, based on experience in University psychology, and personal experience with transgendered people, She is female. Some genetic and developmental switch just didn't turn on at the right time. If you cut open a male and a female brain (in the lab) and compared the two, there are differences between them. In transexuals, their brains do resemble more closely to female brains than males. This leads to gender being something more of a sliding scale than a binary switch. While the male population that cross dress is quite high, those that essentally go all the way are very rare. As someone I knew once told me, most people can't understand what they are feeling. It would be equivalent of starting the day tomorrow with everyone in the whole world suddenly treating you and expecting you to be the opposite sex. It sort of like playing a role, but never feeling like you are being true to yourself. Also, gender and sexuality are different things. This isn't a thrill or sexual thing, but a life thing. Anyways, that's my 2 cents __________________