Trans wrestler Mack Beggs fights for trans athletes' rights

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"There's no evidence that trans women have an advantage in sports."  This trans wrestler is fighting for trans athletes to be able to compete on teams that match their gender identity.

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00:00You're mad, I'm back! Big Mac, he's mad, she's mad, Big Mac!

00:16If I have to go through these struggles and trials in order to get to that ending goal of

00:20the ending goal of helping kids and helping kids in these situations,

00:24then you know what? I mean, I'll take it.

00:30Texas still has a law in place to where whatever you identify as, if it doesn't match your

00:42birth certificate, you have to compete as what it says on your birth certificate.

00:46And so back in high school, on my birth certificate, it said female

00:50because I was biologically born a female.

01:01He saw that I was transitioning. I started testosterone, even though it was none of his business

01:06of what I was taking because, you know, I already had plans and regulation with UIL and my doctor

01:12to where I was taking the amount that would not put me and exceed me out of the normal range

01:19levels of a cis woman. When people hear testosterone, they think PEDs,

01:25which is a performance enhancing drug.

01:30I feel like right now, this fight with the anti-trans bills

01:59and with everything going on, trans athletes and in the LGBT community,

02:03there's a lot of things that I need to do now in order to get done,

02:08because I feel like I will be failing my community and failing myself as an individual.

02:22They're sending the message to everyone saying, well, we don't accept these individuals.

02:28We won't accept them. And that's sad because, well, how are you going to tell an eight-year-old,

02:34you know, boy or girl that is wanting to participate in sports that, oh, you can't because you are different.

02:40If you look into the bills, they're not using any recent analytical data.

02:58They're not using any new research, especially Kansas' bill that I was looking at.

03:04Their research is from like 1996, 2011 and 2012.

03:08There's this UK doctor that I was looking into and have been looking to, Joanne Harper,

03:13and she's a trans woman and she's competed as a runner in her past.

03:17And now she's a scientific researcher.

03:19She has done research on trans women that looks into the red blood cell count in cis females

03:27and comparing it to trans women in sports.

03:30And there's no difference when they hit after the six-month mark once they're on hormonal therapy.

03:38So, like, there's no evidence saying that trans women have an advantage in sports. There's none.

03:47How we can, you know, fight these bills is, you know, changing the narrative.

03:59Even, like, at home when you're, you know, talking with your peers, you know,

04:05start, like, initiating these conversations and, like, do your schoolwork,

04:08educating people of, like, you know, these different things that, you know, people don't understand.

04:13In these states that are, like, trying to pass these laws that are going into secession,

04:18getting a hold of, like, the local governors and, you know, like, talking to them and be like,

04:22no, this bill does not need to be passed.

04:24Like, this is going to be more harmful than it is going to be helpful.

04:28These bills are just retracting years of development that we've been trying to, you know, be progressive in.

04:36And these bills are just, once they're passed, it's going to be so much harder to try to, you know, get them unpassed.

04:44So, if we're able to nip it in the bud right now, we can then focus on those states that do have them passed.

04:59You just got to keep doing you and you can't let nobody tell you different.

05:02Because as soon as you start listening to other people, to what they say, that's when they start getting into your head.

05:08And, you know, if they are, just keep trucking, you know, make history.

05:12Like, you know, just go through those barriers and, you know, just keep doing you, just be you.

05:19Like, don't let anybody tell you different.

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