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diff --git a/content/entry/re-on-transgender-athletes.md b/content/entry/re-on-transgender-athletes.md index 66e4e8a..b6dc0ba 100644 --- a/content/entry/re-on-transgender-athletes.md +++ b/content/entry/re-on-transgender-athletes.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: "Re: On Transgender Athletes" date: 2023-11-26T00:00:00Z draft: false --- -Edit (06-12-2023): Trans sports is often used as a [wedge issue](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_issue "Wedge Issue") to divide working class people politically, so I just want to reemphasize how extremely low priority it is. Nobody should base their vote on microscopic issues like trans sports while we're battling grave problems like poverty and climate change. I only wrote about this issue because I found it intellectually interesting, but politicians who spend time harping on it don't have their priorities straight and probably aren't worth voting for. +Edit (06-12-2023): Trans sports is often used as a [wedge issue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_issue "Wedge Issue") to divide working class people politically, so I just want to reemphasize how extremely low priority it is. Nobody should base their vote on microscopic issues like trans sports while we're battling grave problems like poverty and climate change. I only wrote about this issue because I found it intellectually interesting, but politicians who spend time harping on it don't have their priorities straight and probably aren't worth voting for. Since writing [my entry about transgender athletes](/2022/03/27/on-transgender-athletes/ "On Transgender Athletes"), I've researched and learned a bit more about transgenderism. So I'm going to respond to, clarify, and correct my previous entry with this one. @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Since writing [my entry about transgender athletes](/2022/03/27/on-transgender-a This sentence sets the theme which is echoed throughout the entire entry. To be more specific about it, I meant that biological sex is more relevant than gender when it comes to the leagues in sports. -Right off the bat, some people might object to my use of the term "biological sex" since I later implied that it's binary. They might point out that trans people who have had surgery and/or used hormones and [intersex individuals](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex "Intersex") might not fit neatly within the binary notions of biological male or female. Like with every other way we can classify people with labels, there will always be exceptions, people who don't really fit any label. What do we do about them? +Right off the bat, some people might object to my use of the term "biological sex" since I later implied that it's binary. They might point out that trans people who have had surgery and/or used hormones and [intersex individuals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex "Intersex") might not fit neatly within the binary notions of biological male or female. Like with every other way we can classify people with labels, there will always be exceptions, people who don't really fit any label. What do we do about them? Should they be excluded from sports for not fitting into our boxes? That's the one thing I'm certain we shouldn't do. @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Here, I failed to mention hormones, which can lessen or even eliminate the relev For any reasonable binary definition of biological sex, I'm not sure if there are *hundreds* of differences between biological men and women. It probably depends on how you count those differences, but I was just trying to get across the point that we are significantly different in ways that are relevant to professional sports. I don't see how anyone could possibly deny that. Even if you define biological sex as a spectrum, you still have to divide people up by *some* relevant biological differences to get useful leagues. -> "...biological sex is definitely a meaningful way of differentiating people in sports, and it's unambiguous. You either have XX chromosomes or XY chromosomes, and that can be used to determine [sex](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_sex-determination_system)." +> "...biological sex is definitely a meaningful way of differentiating people in sports, and it's unambiguous. You either have XX chromosomes or XY chromosomes, and that can be used to determine [sex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_sex-determination_system)." It's true that looking at chromosomes is a useful method for identifying biological sex, but it's actually not as unambiguous nor relevant for sports as I implied here. As I said, one can have XX chromosomes but go through male puberty, making the chromosomes perhaps less relevant depending on the circumstance. |