Transgender wrestler Mack Beggs identifies as a male. He just won the Texas state girls title.

The girls that played by the rules got screwed by the system. Some lost a match or the possibility of a state title at the alter of political correctness. This incident is only the tip of the iceberg on this topic. Why would a girl taking PED's be allowed to compete against other girls not taking them? Any other girl that was tested for these would have been disqualified but not our little snowflake. She gets to take PED's and compete. Something no one else would be (or should be) allowed to do.

Unfortunately I'm not certain, I think it goes by state. The only thing that can really be changed after the whole process is complete is your state issued driver's license. As far as birth certificates go it stays the same because that is what you were born as.

There seems to too much concern with a person's genitalia. Isn't a persons privates private? Was his testosterone levels above that of other boys his age? He was forced to compete with the girls because of his birth certificate, not to cheat and win a girls wrestling title. He has every right to compete in high school athletics like any other kid his age. I don't think it is right that people like him cannot be recognized for who they are until after a surgical operation. What is in their pants is nobody's business.

SFC J Fullerton I completely agree with you. But, trying to understand for understanding is understandable. It helps to understand the hardships that these people go through.

PO2 Robert M. - First of all, as you know....there is no such thing as a dumb/stupid question. A transgender person does not have to change their birth cert. if they do not want to. And it's not even law to have to change their DMV but it's very highly advisable!! It takes a few forms to be filled out by MD's and their surgeons (if they had surgery) depending on the State and also their psychologist. Then they have to pay a high fee to change their name and gender. After a Judge grants them yes, then they can go to the DMV and legally get their drivers lic. Changed. They do go through an awful lot of ropes and pain to change their lives and I respect that. What I don't care for is if one expects to be treated "differently" and wants extra attention etc. And in this wrestling case I feel that this male teenager knowing that he is transgender and even though he so loves the sport....he should have either fought for the chance to be on the guys team and or (what I would have done), is bowed out painfully and perhaps found another sport. But you just cannot have it both ways....

And that's the crux of it right there: biological fact. The biological fact is that if he (??) competed against the boys he'd get his breakfast handed to him. Those pesky biological facts that give natural-born boys more dense muscles, bones, and greater lung capacity...issues that wouldn't be overcome with this injections, unlike in the girls' pool. How the hell is this even fair to OTHER girls...?!!