10. Jenna Talackova
Transgender model Jenna Talackova kicked up some global attention when she was disqualified from competing in the 2011 Miss Universe Canada pageant. Pageant rules stated its competitors had to be “naturally born” women. She waged a legal battle and eventually got that decision overturned. After growing up with gender dysphoria, she underwent sex reassignment surgery at 19. She had competed in trans pageants before, but wanted to push the issue that transgender women are, indeed, women. Recently she stared in the E! show Brave New Girls, a lighthearted look into her experiences adjusting to life in Toronto.
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