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Transgender Texas Wrestling Star Raises Difficult Questions Over Competition Rules For Students On Steriods

There is an ongoing controversy over the new wrestling champion of Euless Trinity High School, Mack Beggs, 17.  Beggs was born a girl but is now a transgender boy taking testosterone as part of his treatment.  However, the UIL Wrestling State Tournament officials decided that Beggs would still compete as a girl despite the fact that he is taking steroids that have bulked him up in a way that would be normally a banning offense.

Beggs is 110 pounds and has been met by some boos by those who view the decision as unfair to the girls who have to play against someone who has added considerable muscle through doses of testosterone.  The decision however was not Beggs but the state’s governing body which requires him to compete as a girl.  The result is a lawsuit seeking to ban Beggs from competition as a girl next year.

The more than 600 Texas school district superintendents voted last year to determine gender by birth certificate — a decision that contradicts NCAA policy and International Olympic Committee guidelines.
The decision on how to handle transgender athletes has presented difficult issues for schools.  It seems that the one clearly wrong answer is to force girls to compete against a player who is taking steroids and bulking up as a transition to a male.  This seems pretty unfair to the female competitors.  That leaves a couple of choices. One would be to require competition as a boy in such cases.  However, there is also the questions raised when a boy transitions as a girl and thus has more physical muscle mass.  Likewise, you could prevent any students from competing while taking steroids for any purpose or at least high levels of steroids.  Yet, such exclusion rules can make will make if clearly more difficult for transgender students who are seeking to participate in sports and clubs as part of their new identity.
What do you think?

167 thoughts on “Transgender Texas Wrestling Star Raises Difficult Questions Over Competition Rules For Students On Steriods”

  1. it would naturally be an act of invidious discrimination to deny any person of equal testosterone levels [which is the issue at hand] regardless of gender the choice to wrestle with those of the female sex . . . . In that those of the male sex are denied is all the evidence needed to show such discrimination which allows some but not all with testosterone in their system.

  2. I am curious markkernes, do you think Beggs (the transgender in the post) should be allowed to compete against other females while she is taking drugs that give her an unfair advantage over the others? And if so, is that not completely unfair?

    1. I’m of two minds on this. Apparently, Beggs needs to take the hormones to aid in his transition, but generally speaking, using testosterone to build muscle mass is a no-no for competitors in sporting events. I think I’d have to go with not allowing Beggs to compete “as a girl,” though I’m not sure how I’d respond if he were competing as a boy—but I’d certainly be interested in what the courts have to say on the issue.

  3. Well, I might as well offer up an Irish Poem to the Tranny in question:

    Beggs: The Question???
    An Irish Poem by Squeeky Fromm

    There once was a tranny named Mack,
    Unfortunately, born with a crack!
    Thinking something was wrong,
    Her doc sewed on a schlong,
    Now “she” is a “he”. . . ain’t that whack???

    Squeeky Fromm
    Girl Reporter

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