Transsexuality, difference and a beautiful Canadian

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Jenna Talackova

 Now I know some of you will be looking at the "beautiful Canadian" part of that title and think "Oh for fuck's sake, he's going to be talking about Jodi again," .... but you'd be wrong.

No, this blog is about a subject matter that has always interested me for various reasons and that's transsexuality and difference, or to be more precise, I'm going to talk about one transsexual in particular, Jenna Talackova (right). Jenna recently entered the "Miss Universe Canada" contest but was disqualified after it was discovered that she was born male.

I'm not going to get into the politics of it all but I must say that disqualifying her simply because she was born male was ridiculous, having said that, so is a contest to decide which of a group of females is the most "perfect". For me personally, it's not about how a person was born, it's who they are now and in a world where racism and homophobia are now in a minority, it's such a shame that transphobia is still "going strong."

No-one's perfect, everyone has something "wrong" with them and taking hormones and having surgeries to become the person you want to be is not a character flaw. Everyone wants to change something about themselves, either emotionally or physically, and on the most basic level there's no difference between someone changing their sex than there is someone changing there hair, that person is only becoming the person they want to be. Obviously a sex change is a bit more "extreme" (and costly) than colouring hair, but both are changing how they currently are to be happier.

From Pinterest
"I am gay. I am lesbian. I am bisexual. I am transsexual.
 I am heterosexual. I am like you. I am human."

I think it all comes down to people being afraid of what's different to them, or at least people not understanding what it's like for other people. For example, I like rock music, but all my friends who my friends who don't like it just assume that all rock music is about slicing open your wrist or hating your family, whereas it's not at all (although granted there is a certain small percentage like that), and I think that is being blind ignorant, and I think that's the same with aspects of sexuality.

Ignorance is what is the cause of a lot of hate in the world, people not understanding the "different" people out there and not wanting to.

The way I see it is that if someone is living their life in a way that they want to live it, and as long as their not hurting anyone, then just let them get on with it. If you find out that your friend is gay, it doesn't automatically mean that they are attracted to you. If you find out that your friend wants to change their sex, it doesn't automatically mean that they're doing it because they are attracted to their original gender. These people are just trying to live their lives, just let them get on with it and if you don't like it, you don't have to make their lives miserable because of it.

I'm going to leave you with the reaction of Jenna and her lawyer to finding out that she has been disqualified, and this includes one of the best pieces of logic you will ever hear.