Lifestyle | Miss Universe Transgender Beauty Will Likely Compete in Pageant Trump organization backs down on Jenna Talackova controversy By Rob Quinn Posted Apr 3, 2012 12:28 AM CDT Copied Jenna Talackova, of Vancouver, British Columbia, speaks during a video interview at the 2010 Miss International Queen Competition in Thailand. (AP Photo/Miss International Queen via YouTube, via The Canadian Press) The Trump organization appears to have had a change of heart about a Canadian beauty who had a change of sex. Jenna Talackova—a transgender contestant booted from the Miss Universe Canada pageant—will be allowed to take part "provided she meets the legal gender recognition requirements of Canada and the standards established by other international competitions," according to a lawyer for Donald Trump, who owns the competition. Talackova, 23, had sexual reassignment surgery when she was 19 and was selected as one of the competition's 65 finalists before being disqualified. Her lawyer says that while the Trump statement seems like "gobbledygook," he hopes it means his client can compete, the Globe and Mail reports. Human rights laws in Ontario, where the final is being held, prohibit discrimination based on being transgendered, he notes, so "one would think that she therefore meets the legal gender requirements in Canada." Read These Next Trump is calling out the 'arm of the Democratic party.' Trump fired a fed governor, but she says she's not leaving. Trump thinks "Department of War" sounds better. Man murdered in Mississippi is a US-touring comedian. Report an error