Transgender wrestler Mack Beggs wins Texas girls title again
Senior, 18, beats opponent from 2017 final again
Beggs wants to fight boys but state insists on birth certificate rule
Associated Press in Cypress, Texas
Sun 25 Feb 2018 08.31 EST
For the second year in a row, a transgender wrestler has won the Texas girls’ Class 6A 110lbs 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 on 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. His march to a state championship was dogged by a last-minute lawsuit that tried to stop him.
Beggs 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.
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