Out of curiosity, are other contestants allowed to undergo cosmetic surgery and compete? I suppose the only way that I could make sense of this argument against transsexual contestants would be that no contestants are allowed to have any degree of body modification?

I could understand a beauty contest's aversion to any contestants who have essentially paid for their beauty and therefore disqualifying transexuals on those grounds.

Also from my limited research, this is also a contest that bans women who are married, have been married, or have every had a child. So, uh, it's not exactly an exemplar of equality to begin with, you know? Not that I'm suggesting that this excuses the recent situation, but I usually expect that outrage necessitates some level of surprise at the situation.

For the record, I am not the least bit surprised.