Fantastic piece that actually does something so few in the media are willing to do: showcase the voices and opinions of actual trans people and trans athletes in particular.
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Dave Zirin
Hello! My latest piece @thenation.com "Don’t Listen to Greasy Gavin Newsom. Listen to Trans Athletes."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Appreciate much comments at end; the need to know more.
Won’t win public until fair playing field known?
But I've decided I'm not willing to engage people on legitimate nuances of competitive concerns of trans people in sports, until they spend more time engaging on disintegration of basic ability of trans people to live (housing, employment, etc.).
Starting from THAT from being the baseline, THEN getting into appropriate adjustments for sport-specific concerns, is the real issue.
I've seen a lot of people refuse to engage with people who take another position. You may be viewing that as them completely disagreeing. I'm trying to say it's they may see it as pointless to engage with bigger things going on.
It STARTS there, every discussion, until it's better.
You combat that critique using that fact.
The NCAA ban came after Trump’s anti-trans EO