Former President Donald Trump has become an outspoken critic of transgender women competing in women's sports, frequently discussing the topic at his rallies, but in the past welcomed them in the beauty pageant he ran.

CNN's Andrew Kaczynski resurfaced Trump's stance on trans women competing in the Miss Universe pageant, which he owned from 1996 to 2015. Trump gave several TV and radio interviews in 2012 in which he celebrated the participation of Jenna Talackova, a 23-year-old transgender woman, for partaking in a pageant in Canada, CNN reported.

Several news reports from April 2012 credit Trump specifically with reversing the pageant's ban on transgender women. Trump told CNN at the time he and the Miss Universe Organization had decided to reverse the ban even before they'd heard that Talackova had enlisted women's rights lawyer Gloria Allred to help her challenge it.

Michael Cohen, then Trump's personal lawyer, told E! News that Trump and the organization made the "fair and just decision" to allow Talackova to compete in the Miss Universe 2012 Canada pageant.

"Pageant rules have been modernized to ensure this type of issue does not occur again," Cohen said, adding: "We hope Jenna will now turn her focus to preparing for the upcoming competition. Like all the contestants, Mr. Trump wishes Jenna the best of luck in her quest for the crown."

Trump even praised comments made on stage in 2012 by Miss USA Olivia Culpo in response to a question about trans women competing in the pageant.

"I do think that that would be fair, but I can understand that people would be a little apprehensive to take that road because there is a tradition of natural-born women," Culpo said. "But today where there are so many surgeries and so many people out there who have a need to change for a happier life, I do accept that because I believe it's a free country."

In a June 2012 appearance on Fox News, Trump said Culpo "gave a great answer," CNN reported.

Trump's tone on transgender women competing in women's sports has been pointedly different on the 2024 campaign trail. In countless rallies and speeches, Trump has railed against transgender women and claimed they are destroying women's sports. Trump has also vowed to "ban men from participating in women's sports" and ban "child sexual mutilation."

Transgender teens rarely undergo gender confirmation surgery and more commonly receive hormone treatment. Nationally used guidelines say surgery should only even be considered for patients who are at least 15.

Last week Trump noted during a speech that discussing transgender topics worked up a crowd far more than discussing cutting taxes. "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that," he said of transgender issues, adding: "Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was."

The American Medical Association this week strengthened its policy on protecting gender-affirming care in response to potential legal or criminal penalties adopted by states.

Trump's office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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I'm scared

There was a rocket that exploded above Dalyat El Carmel

They never got this close to here

It's not even a jewish village, it's mostly druze people there

It's getting closer every time

And i'm scared

It's 15 minutes from here

I heard the boom from where i live

The house shook

Israelis don't deserve to die.

Palestenians don't deserve to die.

No one does.

I just want everything to go back to normal

Please

I'm sorry guys, I think it's gonna be a longish wait on the last chapter of JT, my brain has been taken over by my dnd blorbo

After four years, our campaign is finally sprinting to the end game, and I'm pretty sure my poor little rogue is - in his quest to try and save his friend - actually helping the Big Bad to end the world. Around the delicious tragedy of someone trying to help but it being Wrong, the bit I am always thinking about and being sappy over is the After (huge shock, I know, coming from me). He's only 21, lived a relatively sheltered life before he left home at 17 to escape the rigid rules and buck responsibility by falling in with his conman, rogue mentor. Which was Great until the past ~3 months when he fell in with the Party and they have met the gods (who suck), have died and been reincarnated, killed a lich, the world is at war, and his mentor is dying with the only proposed action forward to save him is to break the universe. It's been the worst few months of his life, he's been flying by the seat of his pants and compartmentalizing like crazy just to keep up. I don't know how many more "This Might As Well Happen And I'll Process That Later" he's got left in him, but he is trying his best.

However this ends, he will be broken and he's going to go home. He needs a break to process what the fuck has happened to him. He is, in a very literal sense thanks to reincarnation and in the metaphorical sense, not who he used to be. The quiet, painful, hopeful journey of someone coming out on the other side of trauma means so much to me, and that is going to be his ending.

I have the weirdest takes about Makoto's character and his relationship to the concept of hope, maybe I'll jot them all down and make a huge meta about it once I finish my replay.

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Having big thoughts on tone indicator discourse rn

Able! (previously Saber) and a little Able x Diesel content <3

The Miss Universe Franchise according to Anne Jakrajutatip

There is a shakedown happening at Miss Universe. New National Directors are starting to get introduced. For starters, there is a changing of guards in Indonesia and Malaysia. And getting the country franchise has now become a bidding effort. Read the screenshot below (courtesy of mvlanuevaera) to get an idea. One of the biggest question a potential bidder needs to answer is: “How much business…

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Uma Mulher Trans, que também é empresária tailandesa, Jakkaphong Anne Jakrajutatip, comprou a Organização Miss Universo por US$ 20 milhões (RM 94,38 milhões). Jakkapong, que também é um magnata das celebridades da mídia, é uma defensora dos direitos da Comunidade Trans, que estrelou a versão tailandesa do reality show Project Runway e Shark Tank. Ela também fala abertamente sobre suas experiências como trans ao estabelecer a Life Inspired For Thailand Foundation... Segundo a Forbes , ela é considerada uma das empresárias mais ricas da Ásia e com esse novo passo haverá uma nova era no concurso de beleza que é muito famoso entre asiáticas e latinas. Em suas redes sociais, ele enviou uma mensagem a todos os seus admiradores que ficaram surpresos com a notícia de que a empresária foi quem comprou a referida organização. "Estamos incrivelmente honrados em adquirir a Organização Miss Universo e trabalhar com sua equipe de liderança visionária", disse Jakrajutatip. A partir do ano que vem, a competição anual aceitará mulheres e mães casadas. Anteriormente, apenas mulheres solteiras, entre 18 e 28 anos, que nunca haviam sido casadas ou tinham filhos, podiam se inscrever.