Trans boy wins girls’ wrestling title for 2nd time

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so stunning and brave and juiced up with test.

Transgender boy wins girls’ state wrestling title for second time

CYPRESS, Texas — For the second year in a row, a transgender wrestler has won the Texas girls’ Class 6A 110-pound division.

Mack Beggs, an 18-year-old senior from Euless Trinity High School near Dallas, entered the tournament in Cypress outside of Houston with an undefeated record. He beat Chelsea Sanchez — who he beat for the title in 2017 — in the final match Saturday.

Video posted online showed a mix of cheers and boos from the crowd following Beggs’ win.

Beggs is in the process of transitioning from female to male and taking a low-dose of testosterone.

It was his steroid therapy treatments while wrestling girls that stirred a fierce debate about competitive fairness and transgender rights last season. It’s been a lot quieter since last year when his march to a state championship was dogged by a last-minute lawsuit that tried to stop him.

Beggs had asked to wrestle in the boys’ division, but the rules for Texas public high schools require athletes to compete under the gender on their birth certificate.

Beggs entered the state tournament with a 32-0 record, beating three female wrestlers on his way to the championship.

“He has so much respect for all the girls he wrestles,” said Beggs’ mother, Angela McNew. “People think Mack has been beating up on girls … The girls he wrestles with, they are tough. It has more to do with skill and discipline than strength.”

McNew would not make Beggs available for interviews ahead of the state meet. The solitude allowed him to concentrate on the task ahead and perhaps shield him from attacks on social media and occasional insults from the stands — or even other wrestling mats — during meets.

Beggs’ road to the championship last season included two forfeits in the regional tournament by wrestlers who feared injury. Beggs faced only one forfeit this season. The opposing coach and teammates had insisted the girl wrestle Beggs, but she refused, McNew said.

Beggs’ family has repeatedly said he wants to wrestle boys. The birth certificate rule was approved in 2016 by the University Interscholastic League, the governing body for Texas high school sports. It was done to help schools determine competition, said Jamie Harrison, the UIL’s deputy director.

WATCH: in a dramatic finish, transgender wrestler Mack Beggs rolls out of a possible pinfall to avoid defeat and win state. Met with boos from the crowd. @wfaa pic.twitter.com/72xRpzsQGN

— Matt Howerton (@HowertonNews) February 24, 2018
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I'm so confused. So he/she was originally a girl? Or a boy? And is now wrestling girls? Or boys?

This world is confusing. I can't keep up. 

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BrowBeaten -

I'm so confused. So he/she was originally a girl? Or a boy? And is now wrestling girls? Or boys?

This world is confusing. I can't keep up. 

it's a mentally ill girl on testosterone.

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Progress

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BrowBeaten -

I'm so confused. So he/she was originally a girl? Or a boy? And is now wrestling girls? Or boys?

This world is confusing. I can't keep up. 

OK, so upon re-re-reading... So it's a girl, wresting girls, but this girl is jacked up on testosterone because she's trying to become a dude. 

Greeaaaat... 

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JasonJ -

Why are you attacking hs students?  They are innocent. Shame on you.  I thought kids were off limits. 

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Is this the one where the girl (trying to be a boy) actually wanted to wrestle in the boys division, but the state wouldn't let her?

I would guess that a simple fix would be to simply test for banned substances and not allowing someone taking the substances to participate, regardless of reason for taking them.

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I'm confused.  So many times we see trans people goign the opposite way with it. Like a dude who thinks he's a woman, competing against women and destrying them.  But this is a case of a girl, who is transitioning to a boy, BUT COMPETING AGAINST GIRLS? Why would it not step up and wrestle boys then if it was a boy?

No shame?  No Pride?  If i told the world I was a boy trapped ina girl's body, I would want the world to see me comete againt boys then, ' my equals."  

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TheMMAn -

Is this the one where the girl (trying to be a boy) actually wanted to wrestle in the boys division, but the state wouldn't let her?

I would guess that a simple fix would be to simply test for banned substances and not allowing someone taking the substances to participate, regardless of reason for taking them.

Seems reasonable 

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" miss before I give you this trophy I'm going to need to see your severed penis." - High school athletic director 

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Just explained it to my wife. She had a good point, which is how is this kid allowed to compete at all while on testosterone? Whether it's against males or females. If you're taking testosterone, and making yourself all jacked up and super strong, why are you allowed to compete?

I think it's a fair question. 

Fuck this world. 

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Fighting -

I'm confused.  So many times we see trans people goign the opposite way with it. Like a dude who thinks he's a woman, competing against women and destrying them.  But this is a case of a girl, who is transitioning to a boy, BUT COMPETING AGAINST GIRLS? Why would it not step up and wrestle boys then if it was a boy?

No shame?  No Pride?  If i told the world I was a boy trapped ina girl's body, I would want the world to see me comete againt boys then, ' my equals."  

in Texas they have to compete as their actual gender not whatever gender they make up in their mentally ill fever swamp leftist cuckoo lala land imagination. So instead of sitting it out in the interest of fair play this girl juiced up and competed against the girls.

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BrowBeaten - 
BrowBeaten -

I'm so confused. So he/she was originally a girl? Or a boy? And is now wrestling girls? Or boys?

This world is confusing. I can't keep up. 

OK, so upon re-re-reading... So it's a girl, wresting girls, but this girl is jacked up on testosterone because she's trying to become a dude. 

Greeaaaat... 

Well wrestle guys then.

You claim to be a guy, taking hormones to be a guy, wrestle guys then.  

Fuck.

Mark

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This is just the beginning, imagine 20 years from now how fucked this shit gonna be

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Zhe is so brave

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only in the deranged mind of the mentally ill leftist moonbat is it considered progress to give a girl testosterone and watch her hulk smash other girls.

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Lol Congrats!

#sobrave

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I assume the law was intended to prevent mediocre boys from calling themselves girls and blowing out the real girls like has happened in other states, and as an unintended consequence they weren't expecting juiced up girls who pretend they are boys blowing out the other girls.

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Fighting -

I'm confused.  So many times we see trans people goign the opposite way with it. Like a dude who thinks he's a woman, competing against women and destrying them.  But this is a case of a girl, who is transitioning to a boy, BUT COMPETING AGAINST GIRLS? Why would it not step up and wrestle boys then if it was a boy?

No shame?  No Pride?  If i told the world I was a boy trapped ina girl's body, I would want the world to see me comete againt boys then, ' my equals."  

She wants to wrestle in the boys division, the state won't let her.

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Good on him, brave doing that shit in Texas.