Society
Father applies for Miss World entry
By Echo Shan (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2006-05-30 11:46
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 Gao Tingting, a father of seven-year-old twin daughters, is trying to enter the 56th Miss World China contest in July. [The Legal Evening News] |
Gao's beauty queen ambitions are still under discussion by the pageant's panel as the application deadline of May 31 looms.
Stroking "her" shoulder length hair proudly, semi-transsexual Gao said she has had surgery on her face and throat to make her look more feminine, but she has yet to have a sex-change operation.
"I've been consulting hundreds of surgeons throughout China and am determined to set free the female trapped inside my man's body," "she" said.
Asked about "her" family's point of view, Gao said "her" parents have accepted her strong resolution.
Gao's wife has separated from him but has not formally filed for divorce formally. "Her" twin daughters still call Gao daddy.
Chen Lili, a Chinese transsexual, competed during the Sichuan regional competion of Miss Universe in March of 2004. However, the organizers denied her a next-phase entry because she was not born a woman.
