The transgender wrestler who won the Texas state girls' championship but identifies as a boy is hoping to take down a proposed ābathroom billā in his home state.
Mack Beggs posted a YouTube video urging the Texas legislature not to pass a bill that would prohibit transgender people from using the bathroom corresponding to the gender that they identify with.
The transgender wrestler who won the Texas state girls' championship but identifies as a boy is hoping to take down a proposed ābathroom billā in his home state.
Mack Beggs posted a YouTube video urging the Texas legislature not to pass a bill that would prohibit transgender people from using the bathroom corresponding to the gender that they identify with.
In the video Beggs argues that transgender athletes are not cheating and shouldnāt be discriminated against. āTheyāre not choosing. We belong,ā Beggs says. āTransgender people are not to be feared. We deserve the same rights and protections as everyone else. If youāre a legislator thinking of passing a bill that denies who we are and makes people fear us, stop. We exist and so do our rights.ā
Beggs goes on to argue that any bill passed against transgender people disparages the entire LGBTQ community.
Beggsā gender has been the center of a controversy in Texas high school athletics. He won a lawsuit leveled against him by a female competitor who claimed he had an unfair advantage. Heās also endured some opponents refusing to wrestle him.
In the wake of Beggsā win at the state meet, Texas lawmakers tried and failed to pass a bill that would have disqualified transgender athletes from competition.Ā
