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From beauty pageants to college sports, transgender people break barriers

Started by Shana A, April 15, 2012, 09:48:55 AM

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Shana A

April 15, 2012, 09:48:55 AM
April 14th, 2012
10:06 AM ET

From beauty pageants to college sports, transgender people break barriers

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/14/from-beauty-pageants-to-college-sports-transgender-people-break-barriers/

There are some pageants specifically for transgender women and ->-bleeped-<-s, but Talackova wants to compete in mainstream pageants. Allred said allowing Talackova to compete but not changing the "naturally born" rule doesn't address the problem.

That rule has already been dropped from most sports from high school to the Olympics. Transgender people can compete in high school, college, the Olympics and the LPGA. The NCAA amended its transgender policy just last year.

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She said that after a year of testosterone suppression medication, a male becoming a female will lose a sufficient amount of male muscle-building strengths and other benefits of testosterone and therefore has no unfair advantage over other naturally born females when it comes to athletic competitions.
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