# Yet another Miss Universe question
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-miss-universe-question/63824
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 30, 2001, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-miss-universe-question/63824 "2001-04-30T09:28:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@gadgetgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gadgetgirl)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2001, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-miss-universe-question/63824/1 "2001-04-30T09:28:43Z")
I a bit new here and I’m sure the topic of the French contestant in the Miss Universe pagent has been discussed here before.And I could really care less if she is a he, or whatever. But what cought my attention was a story from E! Online. Here’s a bit of it:
"The brouhaha began in January, when the French Internet news site L’Examineur claimed that Gossuin was really a 27-year-old transvestite cabaret dancer called Nicolas Levanneur.
The story picked up steam when Puerto Rican papers and the New York Daily News began questioning Gossuin’s gender. The local tabloids pointed out with glee that Gossuin had unusually large hands and her forehead sported a scar–supposedly telltale signs that the contestant had undergone a sex-change operation. "
Anyway, my question is what does a scar on the forhead have to do with a sex change operation? I could understand if there were a scar on his/her throat (maybe to hide an Adam’s apple) but on the forhead? What gives?
And yeah she does have really big hands. I mean REALLY big. Reminds me of the “man hands” episode from Sienfeld
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2001, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-miss-universe-question/63824/2 "2001-04-30T10:09:34Z")
Look [here](http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_273888.html)… apparently it was a joke!
Welcome, by the way!🙂
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### Author:  [@gadgetgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gadgetgirl)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2001, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-miss-universe-question/63824/3 "2001-04-30T10:26:20Z")
aww man, hear that? yes, that’s the sound of me making an @ss of myself.
Oh well, thanks for the “hoy-hoy” astro.
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### Author:  [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2001, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-miss-universe-question/63824/4 "2001-04-30T10:45:46Z")
There’s a joke that involves a man undergoing a sex change, and all his friends asking him if it hurt. He repeatedly insists that it didn’t, except for when the surgeons opened his head and removed half his brain.
Just a WAG, but perhaps it was a reference to that?
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### Author:  [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2001, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-miss-universe-question/63824/5 "2001-04-30T10:54:12Z")
> [@](#):
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> aww man, hear that? yes, that’s the sound of me making an @ss of myself.
> Oh well, thanks for the “hoy-hoy” astro.
No problem!
Welcome again! You’ll get a lot of that here, but it’s GOOD!😃