Tattle: She is disqualified as a he from beauty pageant

VANCOUVER'S Jenna Talackova, who looks like a busty Lisa Kudrow, was disqualified as a contestant in May's Miss Universe Canada pageant last week.

Seems she was born male.

But even though she no longer has a scepter, the rules of the contest run by the Donald Trump organization say that entrants must be "naturally born" females.

The pageant's New York-based parent backed Miss Universe Canada's decision.

"After review, organizers discovered that Jenna Talackova falsified her application and did not meet the necessary requirements to compete in the 2012 Miss Universe Canada pageant," a statement said.

Falsifying the application, however, is kind of a canard because had she told the truth, she still would have been booted.

The DQ, however, has won Jenna widespread sympathy and raised the question of whether the pageant has the right to decide who is female.

Jenna's change of gender was hardly a secret.

She had competed in the 2010 Tiffany Miss International Queen Competition, in Thailand, for transgender and transsexual women. In a video interview for that pageant, she said that she had lived her life as a female since age 4, began hormone therapy at 14 and changed gender at 19.

"I regard myself as a woman with a history," she said.

You would think that a woman with a history would appeal to the Donald.

Connie McNaughton, Miss World Canada 1984, called the decision outdated and discriminatory.

Some countries have their candidates undergo cosmetic surgery, she said, so what's wrong with sex-change surgery "because in your heart and soul you believe yourself to be a woman"?

"Under the eyes of the law and the medical profession, she's a legal female," argued Vancouver transgender activist Jamie Lee Hamilton.

Patrizia Gentile, a Carleton University professor who did a dissertation on beauty pageants, went one step further, equating the ban with the exclusion of blacks and Jews from pageants in earlier times.

Huh?

"She may have had male bits when she was born, but she's a female," British Columbia legislator Spencer Chandra Herbert said. "I think Donald Trump and his Miss Universe contest need to get into the current century and get in line with the current science and respect that."

Trump's office said he was not commenting on the matter.

Finally, an issue that could render Donald Trump speechless.

We say Jenna is already a winner.

* A bustier worn onstage by

Whitney Houston fetched $18,750 at an auction in Beverly Hills, Calif., of memorabilia from the late pop star's career.

Julien's Auctions says the sale of 13 items Saturday brought in $80,187 from ghoulish bidders. * Kevin McGuire, the Somer-

dale, N.J., teen who was supposed to be Taylor Swift's date for Sunday night's Academy of Country Music Awards, was readmitted to the hospital Friday - Kevin is battling leukemia - and had to miss the show.

Taylor spoke with Kevin by phone and urged her Twitter followers to keep him in their thoughts. "I'll make it up to you, Kevin!" she tweeted.

She may be country, but Taylor Swift rocks.

*  Jerry Lee Lewis sure doesn't

need online dating.

Not when he's got family.

The rock 'n' roll legend has married for a seventh time in Mississippi, and the new bride is his cousin Rusty's ex-wife.

Hey, his third wife was Rusty's older sister.

The 76-year-old Killer's new missus, Judith Ann Coghlan Lewis, is 62. That third wife, back in 1957, was Myra. She wasn't just Jerry Lee's cousin - she was 13.

- Daily News wire services

contributed to this report.