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CYPRESS -- A few hours after winning a state championship, Mack Beggs came walking out of a conference room, flanked by his coach, with the entire Euless Trinity girls team in tow.

Beggs, a 17-year-old transgender wrestler from Euless Trinity, had been the topic of this weekend's state championships. Debates rose up among coaches, parents, and fans about whether Beggs, who is transitioning from female to male, should be able to compete in the Class 6A 110-pound girls division after undergoing testosterone treatments. UIL rules forbid Beggs from competing against boys.

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Transgenders as role models, such as in the above story, could captivate the sports world and create a new issue of acceptance, worldwide. Laws about who can use what bathroom where will realign correctly once the general public begins to realize transgenders are not a threat but a tribute to humanity. The sports world is admired and accepted generally as are the players within who become legends and heroes. Here is a link to the top 15 Famous Transgender Athletes. This link is old, but still makes a valid point and worth reading.

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Athletes have long been segregated on the basis of sex. But what happens to the athletes whose physiological traits that distinguish them as female or male don’t match their gender identity? In her first major public appearance since coming out as transgender, Caitlyn Jenner used her acceptance speech for the ESPY’s Arthur Ashe Courage Award to talk about her life as an athlete and a transgendered woman.

By definition, transgender is an “umbrella term” that is “used to describe anyone whose identity or behaviour falls outside stereotypical gender norms. More narrowly defined, it refers to individuals whose gender identity does not match their assigned birth gender. Being transgender does not imply any specific sexual orientation (attraction to people of a specific gender). Therefore, transgender people may additionally identify as straight, gay, lesbian or bisexual.”

In a system that segregates athletic competition by sex for reasons of “fairness”, where do transgender athletes fit? The International Olympic Committee (IOC) settled the issue of transgender athletes in 2004, when they released the rules to compete. The IOC rules boil down to three basic points. A transgender athlete must have had gender reassignment surgery, they must have legal recognition of their assigned gender and they must have at least two years of hormone therapy. Given these conditions, the IOC does not consider being transgender an unfair advantage. In 2011 the NCAA instituted somewhat less stringent guidelines, they do not require surgery, and they require only one year on testosterone suppression for male-to-female transgender athletes.

Unfortunately, there are detractors (I’m putting it nicely) who feel Jenner was not deserving of the award and who do not seem to understand why ESPN created the award to begin with. Named after Arthur Ashe, the first (and so far only) African-American male tennis player to win singles titles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open or Australian Open, ESPN created the award to honour and promote his legacy. Ashe died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1993. The award recognizes those “possessing strength in the face of adversity, courage in the face of peril and the willingness to stand up for their beliefs no matter what the cost”. While Caitlyn Jenner remains in the spotlight, here’s a look at the Top 15 Transgender Athletes who have broken down cultural barriers over the years . . .


. . . 4. FALLON FOX (FORMERLY BURTON BOYD)
Fallon Fox is the first openly transgender athlete in the history of MMA (mixed martial arts). After a stint in the military, Fox flew all alone to Thailand for “gender reassignment surgery” in 2006. She was forced to come out publicly in 2013 after a reporter indicated he knew she was transgender. Since then there has been considerable controversy over whether or not Fox possesses an advantage over other female fighters.

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