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Mack Beggs won the girls 110-pound championship in Euless, Texas, on Saturday
The 17-year-old began taking steroids in 2015 to transition from female to male
Parents in the district say it is unsafe for the other girls to compete against him
Some have filed a lawsuit against the league for 'putting them at risk of harm'
They claim Mack, who lives with his grandmother, has an unfair advantage
He says all of the teenagers are happy competing and 'just want to wrestle'

Published: 11:25 EDT, 19 February 2017 | Updated: 09:49 EDT, 20 February 2017

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A transgender teenager won a girls wrestling contest on Saturday despite attempts from other competitors' parents to stop him from taking part.

Mack Beggs, a 17-year-old from Euless, Texas, has been taking steroids as part of his transition from female to male since late 2015.

He says he wants to compete against boys but isn't allowed to because of University Interscholastic League rules which say he must compete as the gender listed by his birth certificate.

The league does not allow students to compete against the opposite sex so Mack is forced to stay in the girls' category.

Mack Beggs (left recently and right before he began taking steroids to transition from female to male) won the girls 110-pound wrestling championship on Saturday in Euless, Texas

A girl he was due to wrestle at the weekend forfeited the match amid claims from parents that was unsafe for her to wrestle the transgender teenager who they say he is getting an 'unfair advantage' by taking steroids.

One parent has launched a lawsuit against the League, claiming it is putting girls at risk of 'imminent threat of bodily harm' by allowing Mack to remain in the 110-pound weight class.

Jim Baudhuin, a local parent and lawyer who filed the lawsuit against the league, told DailyMail.com on Sunday he was not trying to get in Mack's way but insisted he had an unfair advantage over the girls in the category.

'It's fundamentally unfair.

While Mack remains in the 110lb weight category, the changes to his body mean he is stronger. Mr Baudhuin said he has injured some of the girls while wrestling them.

He insisted that he was not trying to stop the teenager from competing but believes the league should allow him to compete with the boys.

'I know this kid, I like her. Believe me, I'd like to help her however I can,' he said.

Mack is still competing in the girls' category because of league rules which state he must compete as the gender on his birth certificate and wrestle the same sex

It's not clear how much Mack's weight has changed since he began taking the steroids which are allowed in the league if prescribed by a doctor. In recent social media photographs he appeared to show a light moustache

Parents say the girls in the category are at 'imminent risk of bodily harm' if they wrestle Mack (above during another match last week)

Mack (above with other members of the team from Trinity High School) said he just wants to wrestle and stay within the league rules

Mack's grandmother Nancy said the forfeiture was about nothing more than 'hatred' and that the youngsters were willing to take each other on before the parents meddled.

'Today was about bias, hatred and ignorance. These kids have wrestled each other before, they know each other and they were not happy with this,' she told Sports Day.

Mack took to social media to share his own frustration.

'The thing is, we want to wrestle each other. I feel so sick and disgusted by the discrimination not by the kids, the parents and coaches.

'These kids don't care who you put in front of them to wrestle. We just want to wrestle.

'They are taking that away from me and from the people I'm competing with,' he said.

While the use of steroids to advance performance in wrestling is not allowed, the league makes provisions for students who have been prescribed them by doctors.