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diff --git a/content/entry/on-transgender-athletes.md b/content/entry/on-transgender-athletes.md index b8d745c..8dc427a 100644 --- a/content/entry/on-transgender-athletes.md +++ b/content/entry/on-transgender-athletes.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: "On Transgender Athletes" date: 2022-03-27T00:00:01 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. + I don't really care about professional sports, so I have no personal stake in the trans athlete debate. I consider this issue really low priority. The percentage of professional trans athletes is very tiny and there are bigger problems in society. But I've heard a lot of confusion on the topic, so I'd like to chime in. I haven't said much about trans issues on this journal yet, so let me just say I have no problem using preferred pronouns. I don't care what others do with their own body. I've worked with trans people before and treated them with the same respect as I would anybody else. But I think in the case of professional athletes, biological sex is more relevant than gender. diff --git a/content/entry/re-on-transgender-athletes.md b/content/entry/re-on-transgender-athletes.md index 8a26e4c..4a879eb 100644 --- a/content/entry/re-on-transgender-athletes.md +++ b/content/entry/re-on-transgender-athletes.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ 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. + 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. > "...I think in the case of professional athletes, biological sex is more relevant than gender." |