I’m in the grey here so probs many won’t see this, but for all my fine North American friends with their big things, you guys have no idea what all that seemed like to us Brits at the time. I was born in 1970 and first went to Canada and the US in ‘77. Before then, I’d never had a slush puppy (never heard of them),…

A man who is 6 feet 6 inches tall is going to have a lifelong physical advantage over most female athletes in most sports no matter what hormones he takes.

We are very aware of all those facts. Mack, as mentioned in the story, had been receiving medically prescribed testosterone treatment that increased muscle mass. Mack’s muscle mass was equivalent to that of a boy of the same weight (per other articles). Physically speaking, Mack would have been competitive against…

Ultimately I blame the officials for not allowing him to compete against boys, but he should have done the right thing and not fucking wrestled against girls.

I could care less about the gender thing, but isn’t taking testosterone injections kind of cheating?

Transgender BOY wins GIRLS competition. How ludicrous! These parents must be sooo proud

My co-workers and I fear transgender inclusion in sports may someday lead to abuse. While this case doesn’t have any clear signs of rules abuse by Mack, it does set a dangerous precedent.

The law is really unfair to the girls. In any other context, the boy would be considered disqualified because of PED rules. His transition has made him far stronger than his female competition.

Taking the risk of sounding sexist I’m going throw this idea out there. In most sports the men are obviously the ones with the upper hand. If a transgender person who was born a woman wants to compete with men. I think that is fine.  I do not think that should be the case the other way around. That said, would this…

Imagine the girl who trained most of her life to win. and to win in a sport where girls are discouraged to win and all she’s likely to have in her life is the win in high school.

“he had never wanted to be part of in the first place.”

Having boys and girls compete together is feasible until the age of 14 or so. After that the competition gets lopsided even in the lower weight categories.

this isn’t a trans issue. whatever this human identifies as, it is using PED’s. so ban the cheating fuck.

I bet his birth certificate says he’s 20 inches long and 8 lbs too, and yet they’re allowing him to wrestle opponents that are like 5'4" and 130

It’s a choice. The taking of drugs has consequences. One is no wrestling.

The rules were written before all this trans noise started being a thing.

Wants. Not needs. Needs air. Wants to be a gender other than what they actually are and always will be.

Birth certificate gender should trump personal convictions and medical treatments. Want to take Test? You fail drug test. Don’t wrestle at all. Consequences of choices.

They should have required the testosterone injections be stopped and verified the levels were back to normal. Then compete all you want. We all know testosterone gives you an advantage or college/pro athletes wouldn’t use them. Then we would know if this kid won based on skill or won with skill combined with the…

To be fair, Reagan had an excuse. Being shot and all.