Transgender Teenager Wins Texas State Wrestling Championship

[ClydeR]

A transgender teenager won a Texas state title for girls wrestling on Saturday — even though the wrestler, 17-year-old Mack Beggs, identifies as a boy.

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Instead, much of the focus was on Mack, who is transitioning from female to male and is taking testosterone. Mack would have preferred to be wrestling boys, but state policy forced him to compete according to the gender listed on his birth certificate.

The state allows steroids if they're used for valid medical purposes.

Should they change the rules to require this wrestler to compete against boys? If so, should the student still be required to use the girls' bathroom in Texas? The Trump administration, as you have undoubtedly heard, weighed in on the toilet wars last week, reversing an Obama administration policy that would have required public schools to allow students to use the bathroom that corresponds to the student's "gender identity."

[Gelston]

It is a girl on steroids competing against girls not on them, basically. I don't think she should have been allowed to compete at all while on those drugs.

[Parkbandit]

It is a girl on steroids competing against girls not on them, basically. I don't think she should have been allowed to compete at all while on those drugs.

Can't have it both ways.. unless you believe he/she shouldn't be able to compete against any sex?

[Gelston]

Can't have it both ways.. unless you believe he/she shouldn't be able to compete against any sex?

.... I said no competition PERIOD while on steroids.

[Androidpk]

Legalize steroids. Problem solved.

[Gelston]

Legalize steroids. Problem solved.

While I don't care for professional, I don't agree with that for teenage amateur sports.

[chalion]

.... I said no competition PERIOD while on steroids.

I'm sure shes not having her period if shes jacked up on steriods.

[Tgo01]

Kind of odd that steroids are allowed for any reason. Is it any secret that steroids gives people an unfair advantage in sports such as this?

I realize he/she is taking them for medical reasons but sometimes life isn't fair.

[chalion]

Women don't naturally generate as much test as men do. So part of the transition process is to supplement that test production with artificial means. This will subdue the natural estrogen production and the body will start to undergo the secondary traits of puberty that men do, hair growth, deep voice etc. She's aware it gives her an unfair advantage against other women, she doesnt want to wrestle women, she wants to wrestle men who she is now more on par with.
It is a tangle of interesting questions. All other things taken out, could an artificial testosterone using biological female gain an advantage over the same age bracket post-puberty male?

[Kembal]

Kind of odd that steroids are allowed for any reason. Is it any secret that steroids gives people an unfair advantage in sports such as this?

I realize he/she is taking them for medical reasons but sometimes life isn't fair.

You know, I haven't heard this angle in the reporting here locally (shouldn't have been able to compete at all) - everything I read/heard was that he should've been made to compete against boys. Which makes me think the UIL (governs Texas high school sports) must've okayed it somehow. I don't know what the basis for that is.