Male transgender wrestler Mack Beggs plans to fight Texas Republicans ... winning his second Texas University Interscholastic League women’s wrestling state championship. Under the footage ...

A Texas school sports rule requiring wrestlers to compete with the gender stated on their birth certificate meant that Mack Beggs, a transgender boy, had to wrestle with cisgender females during ...

In 2018, transgender wrestler Mack Beggs made national headlines when he went undefeated and won the girls' state championship. Over the previous years, Beggs, who was born female, had undergone ...

This has led to an unintended, ironic consequence. To wit: Texas wrestler Mack Beggs, a female transitioning to male who wanted to compete as a boy but wasn’t allowed to because his birth ...

Mack Beggs would have been an activist anyway. The 22-year-old former high school and college wrestler has felt the ... (Two of his female opponents in the 2017 state tournament chose to forfeit ...

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MACK BEGGS, AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLER: Wrestling found me. I love it. I do train as hard as a man. I fight as hard as a man. I am a man. And I’m the state champ of female ...

EULESS, TX. -- Mack Beggs loved wrestling from the moment he stepped on the mat. But because his birth certificate said female, he was banned from competing against other male athletes.

Mack Beggs knows all too well what it’s like to play sports in school as a gender that isn’t his own. He became a two-time high school champion wrestler ... girls and women although he did ...

YOU MIGHT KNOW Mack Beggs from the photo that rocketed around the Internet after he went undefeated to win the Texas state wrestling championship ... Although he was assigned female at birth ...