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Transgender teen wins regional wrestling title despite attempt to ban him from competing
SportsDayHS ^ | Feb. 19, 2017 | Michael Florek

Posted on 02/20/2017 6:39:18 AM PST by bgill

The winning wrestler pulled a tearful runner-up next to him on the victory stand, and they exchanged a hug after a match that never took place. Mack Beggs, a transgender 17-year-old at Euless Trinity, won the girls 110-pound championship at Saturday's Class 6A Region II wrestling meet after a Coppell wrestler forfeited the final. Beggs, a junior, is taking testosterone while transitioning from female to male. Madeline Rocha's forfeit came 11 days after a lawsuit was filed against the University Interscholastic League by Coppell attorney and wrestling parent Jim Baudhuin, urging the governing body to suspend Beggs because of the use of the steroid.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: transgender; uil; wrestling
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To: Telepathic Intruder

This could be a deliberate attempt to derail the entire “transgender” supremacy movement.

He may actually be making a political statement that could have a big impact.


61 posted on 02/20/2017 7:59:12 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: bgill

Soul Woman.


62 posted on 02/20/2017 7:59:46 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: manc

I remember when Russian women Olympic athletes lost medals for taking steroids. I guess that will be allowed from now on.


63 posted on 02/20/2017 8:19:50 AM PST by Terry Mross (Now I understand how dictators gain power. Eventually people want some relief from the idiots.)
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To: luvbach1

No matter whether they are a pretend boy or pretend girl, somehow they both wind up competing in the women’s class. It’s all about gaming the system.


64 posted on 02/20/2017 8:28:15 AM PST by sportutegrl
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To: bgill

“Guaranteed in 5 years women’s sports will be full of Y chromosomes and steroids.”

One way to end the Title IX nonsense.


65 posted on 02/20/2017 8:31:41 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: bgill

Steroids are bad, unless you are sexually confused and then it’s good.


66 posted on 02/20/2017 8:37:04 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: bgill

Steroids are bad, unless you are sexually confused and then it’s good.


67 posted on 02/20/2017 8:37:04 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: bgill

American Freak Show


68 posted on 02/20/2017 8:38:51 AM PST by onedoug
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To: bgill

Bad things happen when governments pretend things to be true that aren’t true. Governments have already done all of these:

-Pretending that black people aren’t people.
-Pretending that Jewish people aren’t people.
-Pretending that pre-born people aren’t people.
-Pretending that homosexuality is normal.


69 posted on 02/20/2017 8:51:31 AM PST by libertylover (In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
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To: bgill

I hope this thing continues kicking up resentment because it is helping our cause, pushing stupid but not quite brain-dead liberals over to our side.

I hope it never stops kicking female ass.

It’s helping us.


70 posted on 02/20/2017 8:53:09 AM PST by gaijin
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To: bgill

So this over-muscled chick taking testosterone to “become a man” is great and ok, and she can compete as is, but a straight chick taking testosterone to up her game and give her an advantage over other athletes would be verboten, is that right?


71 posted on 02/20/2017 9:05:13 AM PST by CaptainPhilFan
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To: butlerweave
I thought steroids were a big no no

They are, but the UIL has a safe harbor provision where if you take them for a medical condition, as dispensed by a valid medical practitioner, you're still allowed to compete. While I wouldn't call "pretending to be a boy" a valid medical condition for the purpose of steroids, it can be a valid medical condition for something else...
72 posted on 02/20/2017 9:14:01 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Actually, if we are going to argue that people have to compete in their actual gender categories, this is exactly what we want, and we should not object.

The problem here has nothing really to do with her being transgender.

It is that she is prescribed testosterone, a controlled steroid that would normally disqualify an athlete from competition. But because it is prescribed for her transition, and because of the “transgender” rules, someone decided they couldn’t “discriminate”.

There’s a female in college who is presenting as a transgender male, but who is asking to get into a sorority. Again, a biological female, she should be allowed into a sorority, regardless of what she presents as her desired “gender”. I actually think the transgender community is pushing this because they hope that rejection by the biological sex will give them support for transgender rights.

I mean, if a girl who thinks she is a boy can’t get treated like a female, it will lend support to treating her like a male.


73 posted on 02/20/2017 9:31:00 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Terry Mross

good point


74 posted on 02/20/2017 9:49:33 AM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: bgill

“Beggs, a junior, is taking testosterone while transitioning from female to male.”

So if she took testosterone as a “performance enhancer”, she would be stripped of any awards, and probably banned from competition. However, if she claims she is taking it to “transition”, it’s A-okay and she gets to keep the competitive advantage and the trophy.


75 posted on 02/20/2017 9:50:17 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: bgill
Feminists want absolute equality so, let's give it to them. Remove all distinctions between the sexes in sports and force them to all compete against one another.

No more "men's" basketball/"women's" basketball. Now, they compete against one another equally. Ditto fighting, tennis, golf, foolsball, etc. Let'em feel the consequence of their narcissistic stupidity.

76 posted on 02/20/2017 9:53:24 AM PST by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: fwdude

Yep, there is going to be a new pecking order. The best athletes will be the really good male athletes competing in male sports. Then you will see subpar men who can’t compete with the top tier dominating in female sports by claiming they are “transgender”, followed by “transitioning” females who are jacked on testosterone, with normal women basically having no chance of competing at all.


77 posted on 02/20/2017 10:01:26 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Possibly, but I don’t think they’re that smart. They seem to act solely on how they “feel”, and view reality that way too. And in their view, they’re victims so they should have it whatever way they want, regardless of others who they can call the villain for denying it.


78 posted on 02/20/2017 10:06:28 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: brucedickinson

At this rate, that will happen. It will be interesting to see how other countries react when we march a transgender team out onto the field against their women. Certainly someone will have to complain at the Olympics, and rightly so.


79 posted on 02/20/2017 10:35:42 AM PST by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: luvbach1

Yeah, but she’s all jacked up on steroids!


80 posted on 02/20/2017 10:46:07 AM PST by KyCats
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