Should Transvestites Compete with Women?

In the last year there was a controversy about the winner of the Canadian beauty pageant.  The winner was a transvestite.  It suddenly became an issue.  What to do?  They eventually decided to let her compete.

Beauty and the Curves is about to get controversial.

She protested that she was being disqualified for "being born."

What is my humble blogger opinion?

SHE DOES NOT QUALIFY.

*Gasp*

As a costumer, I have worked with and been around a lot of drag queens.  Seen many drag shows.  Wanna know a drag queen tip?  Use clear dance floor tape.  It works best.

"What's that got to do with the pageant?"  I also know the lengths that these originally born men go to in order to look like a woman.

"But he used drug therapy and surgery and now he's a she!"

Here's my beef.

He is a manufactured she.  She got to choose her cheek bones, the size of her breasts, the curve of her hips, how plump her lips will be....and the list goes on.  Every day women don't choose these things.  We're born with them and then we have to learn to love and accept them the way they are.  Which is a huge struggle.  A struggle that profits companies millions of dollars every year, because we can't seem to like our natural selves.  Now you're telling us that we're having to compete against someone who composed herself completely surgically?!  We can't win!

"What about other women in the pageant who have also had plastic surgery?"

I have many friends who have breast implants and have used plastic surgery.  I am not an advocate for plastic surgery for vanity purposes.  In every case, I can confidently say, "You looked beautiful before."  In light of my opinion on that, it makes sense for me to follow by saying,

Plastic surgery should not be allowed in ANY beauty pageant.

I want to see natural beauty.  I want to see a woman who loves herself and advocates all sizes of women.  A woman who eats right and exercises.  My artistic eye prefers to see a very slender woman with smaller breasts.  The large, fake ones don't look right.  They're not proportionate.  Sure I have larger breasts, but I also have larger than average hips.  Most models' hips are 32" or 34".  My hips are 39".  So does it not make sense that the model would be an A or a B cup and I'm a DD?  We're talking 5-7" difference!  And I'm convinced that one is just as beautiful as the other.

Quit making us women live up to an unobtainable fantasy.  The only way to compete with a manufactured woman is to manufacture yourself.  If Jenna (Miss Canada) felt the need to alter her entire body for her happiness, that's her beef.  That's not what I'm about.  In fact, it's the complete OPPOSITE of what I'm about.  I'm about finding happiness in who you are and how you were created.  I'm not going to delve into the transvestite argument of whether it's right or wrong.  But I will say this.

I wish Jenna could've loved herself no matter what.  Even as a man.