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To 2012 when Mr. Trump had rule about a trans contestant for Miss Universe Canada contest.

When Trump Confronted a Transgender Beauty
Counterpunch
By David Rosen
February 12, 2016

One episode in his long and dubious career took place in 2012 when Trump, owner of the Miss Universe pageant, was forced to change the organizations’ official rules so that a 23 year-old transgender woman, Jenna Talackova, could compete.  This was not an easy defeat for the 2016 Republican presidential candidate.

Talackova sought to compete in the Miss Universe Canada contest.  A 6-foot-1-inch blond from Vancouver, she had lived as a female since the age of 4 years, started hormone therapy at 14 and, at 19, underwent male-to-female sex reassignment surgery.

Talackova had earlier attempted to compete in the Miss Vancouver contest, but was barred due to being a transgender person.  In 2012, she entered the Miss Universe Canada and reached the finals, but was disqualified because she was born a male.  The contest’s director, Denis Davila, pulled the plug, insisted that she had violated the organization’s rules requiring a contestant to be a “naturally born female” and had falsely stated on her application that she was born a female.  “We have to have the facts straight. There is no discrimination here at all,” he insisted.  “You can look at it the way she wants to look at it, but we all have to follow the same rules.”

Miss Universe Canada officials said that she couldn’t compete in the pageant and then the Donald stepped in overturning the Canadian officials…

In an interview on the TV show, Good Morning America, Trump declared: “I think Jenna should focus on running up in Canada and seeing how she does in Canada and then, if she does well, she has a chance to become what many, many young women all over the world want to be and that’s Miss Universe.”  He added, “That should be her focus.”

And so she did compete and won “Miss Congeniality”