Openly MRKH Contestant In Miss USA 2013
We won’t have a girl like us competing in the Miss USA 2013 pageant next month because Kylan Wenzel unfortunately didn’t win the Miss California USA pageant. I’ll still have somebody else to root for besides the women of color and my Lone Star state representative when I watch the pageant on June 16 and see who Miss USA 2012 Nana Meriwether crowns as her successor. . My friends in the intersex community are excited to learn that Miss Michigan USA Jaclyn Shultz is one of the 51 women vying for the Miss USA crown. Jaclyn has condition that affects one in 4500 newborn girls called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome. MRKH affects the reproductive system and causes the vagina and uterus to be underdeveloped or absent Women with MRKH syndrome have a female chromosome pattern (46,XX), functioning ovaries, conventionally developed external female external genitalia and breast and pubic hair development. In Jaclyn’s
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