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I just read an article that a girl about my age named Jenna Talackova will not be allowed to compete in the Miss Universe Canada pageant because she is transgender. If she is legally a WOMAN then why should she be disqualified? Clearly other pageants have allowed her to compete or she wouldn’t have been selected for the Miss Universe Canada pageant in the first place!! Only once pageant officials discovered that she was transgender was Jenna disqualified. This woman is stunning and has every right to compete in this pageant. We must end this discrimination now! 

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Please sign this petition to Donald Trump (who owns the pageant) to let Jenna compete for Miss Universe Canada. At the very least it will let Jenna know that there are so many people who stand behind her.

xx Ashley