There was an interesting situation earlier this year that shows the opposite angle of this. A transgender boy (born female) won a female wrestling tournament in Texas.
In that case he had been transitioning and taking testosterone, and actually wanted to compete in boys wrestling but the state ruled he must compete as the sex on his birth certificate, forcing him to wrestle girls or not compete at all.
The big difference is of course the hormonal steps toward physically transitioning, but your story and this raise interesting questions for certain!
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According to the information available, the teen in my article has not begun taking any steps towards becoming a female so it is literally a teenage male running against teenage females.
I knew about that wrestling situation. Rather sad because those steps taken gave that person a perceived edge over on the competition. That is how I view it, clearly the state of Texas feels otherwise.
I don't feel like the state of Texas feels otherwise, I see it as more the laws and regulations not keeping pace and there being a general lack of transgender understanding. Everyone probably saw the inherent unfairness but went by the rule book to the letter.
I feel like it's on par with the ridiculous "bathroom bills" that require trans people to use the facility of their birth sex. Too often I think people equate transgender to being a transvestite/cross dresser.
Blanket politics and hard rules will probably never work to address situations like these. Hopefully a bit of common sense and individual review will prevail in the end.
Good points.