When wrestler Mack Beggs stepped onto the mat to compete during his days as a high schooler in Texas, he not only faced the opponent in front of him, but often a raft of adversaries in the stands.
They booed him and hurled invectives.“I do think people hate me,” Mack says in the Emmy-nominated documentary Changing the Game.
The reason? “There was a huge uproar and controversy with me being trans.”Beggs found himself twisted into knots — not by another wrestler, but by a state imposing restrictions and regulations on the activities of trans athletes.
Beggs wanted to compete against boys, but Texas refused and would only allow him to wrestle girls. When he did wrestle girls, crowds rained down abuse.Beggs said he tried to tune that out and keep focused on the match.“I was just like, why are you being malicious?
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