Ai Haruna reacts after winning the Miss International Queen 2009 transsexual beauty pageant in Pattaya on Saturday.
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Japanese TV personality wins transsexual beauty pageant

Sunday 01st November, 10:11 AM JST

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Triumvere at 05:11 PM JST - 2nd November

God made woman to be with man and there is no inbetween. It is all down to personal choice and trends.

Only, this is demonstrably not true. Take that South African sprinter that got introuble awhile back. Sex/Gender are not a binary as you think they are; nature makes mistakes all the time.
sctaber56 at 05:44 PM JST - 2nd November

@DickMorris: Remember the second greatest commandment? To love your neighbor as you love yourself. How truly sad to be so very closed minded. If you don't mind, I'll be praying for you. May Christ be with you always.
LoveUSA at 07:48 PM JST - 2nd November

looks are not everything. I would rather be with somebody intelligent and with sense of humour, it does not matter what appearance is.

Beauty contests are stupid anyway. Their bodies, their faces are not real. Only the brain is natural. so please evaluate the brain, not the technique of their plastic surgery doctor.
dolphingirl at 10:01 PM JST - 2nd November

DickMorris: I doubt anyone would choose to be transgendered because of the insults they have to put up with from narrow-minded people like you. I'm not big on beauty pageants in general but I do believe that all people should have the same opportunities regardless of their sexual-orientation or gender.
cadmium at 10:11 PM JST - 2nd November

I think some of us men might feel awkward at seeing an attractive female only to find out on closer inspection that it's a transsexual. Fear not! There's nothing wrong with feeling attracted to the female figure! You're still heterosexual! It's like saying you're attracted to ink because you see an attractive photo of a woman in a magazine, that's really made of ink. We're attracted to the image, that's all.
mnemosyne23 at 12:11 AM JST - 3rd November

Good for Ai-chan! She always makes me laugh when she guests on Japan's various variety shows. Congratulations to her!
Potsu at 08:55 AM JST - 3rd November

goddifist: "im srry im Christian but this is so wrong in so many ways"

As you said,"I'm sorry I'm Christian....".
desmosedici at 12:36 PM JST - 3rd November

Japan chalked up another meaningful "sekaiichi" award. Even as a non-Japanese person, it instilled me with pride... And she's not funny. Maybe she is a nice person, but definitely not funny.
numbskull at 04:22 PM JST - 3rd November

Its sad when narrow little minds cannot accept human variety. Its the simple who need everything to be simple. And they blame God for their simpleness!

Morally this is absolutely nothing compared to what your boys have done in Iraq. People die there, no one died in this pagent.

Well said Zurc. Forest. Trees. Nuff said!

Anyway, Ai is hot and tempts me to cross over. Hard to believe she is 37!
featherhead at 04:41 PM JST - 3rd November

Dick, Dick, Dick....Do you REALLY think that God would frown upon a guy who decides to become a woman more so than, say, men going to kill each other in wars? What sort of deviant God are you worshipping? Where the hell are ITS morals? Of course given the fact that the "all loving God" allows for natural disasters to happen which kill millions, allows diseases to flourish which kills millions, wars to occur which kills millions, and on and on and on....and can't really seem to do anything about these trivialities, I mean, assuming one to be all powerful these things would be trivial, I guess they're simply not as interesting to IT as making sure a guy/gal with breasts is condemned to hell for all eternity. Not THAT'S the kind of prioritizing any responsible God would have. Also, what about folks who simply happen to be born with both sex organs? Let me guess, their parents sinned and they're paying for it. Anyway, given that the world was "intelligently designed" only 10,000 years ago, I guess it just takes some longer than others to realize that God is going to make them burn for wearing dresses.
dolphingirl at 12:07 AM JST - 4th November

Dick: 'against moral societies wishes'--Those may be your morals but don't try to pin them on other people.

'stay the way you were born'--So people shouldn't dye their hair, get piercings, plastic surgery, organ transplants...?! That's ridiculous!

'stop people from becoming gay and transsexual'--I like to hear more a bout the torture and intimidation techniques that go on here...

I pity you because you are missing out on some of the most fabulous people on this earth! Diversity is beautiful.
Suzzanna at 07:06 AM JST - 4th November

Dick , I am Roman Catholic and I am not disgusted with this in the least !Who ,or what gives you the right to put someone down because of who they are ? There have been transexuals that have commited suicide because of jerks like you , that put a religion over ones life !You want everyone to be as misserable with life as you are !In case you haven't heard,there are some very intelligent and powerful people that are transgendered ! The transgendered beauty contest has got nothing to do with men trying to look better than women ! There are some very gorgeous transexuals that you probably would mistake for a biological woman !Are you jealous of them ,or are you afraid that you could probably fall for one ? I envy the winner because I have been a transexual almost all my life !
SiouxGirl at 01:08 PM JST - 4th November

She's 37?!! That's what's quite incredible. She's pretty up there for a contest that doesn't have the word Senior or Mrs. in the title - and she won!
techall at 01:11 PM JST - 4th November

I aint gay, but I gotta say, some of the most beautiful girls in the world, are guys in Thailand!
mrhog123 at 01:19 PM JST - 7th November

When I was stationed in Bamgkok one of my drunken buddies went home wqith a katoy(transsexual, Needless to say he sobered up rather quickly when he found out the plumbing wasn't what he expected.