The percentages don't matter to me. When COVID struck, at first I was basically alone, both when people were like all "it's the flu...it's going to be no big deal...MIC will happen play on", and then with the "you are overreacting guys". I'm comfortable sitting alone on the fence.
My positional/moral position is very centrist. Open participation on the youth level, restricted participation on the college level (assuming you can balance, which I think ultimately the science will show racing and jumping events cannot be balanced), heavily restricted on the national level. The extreme right position is kick the transgendered going in either direction, regardless of age or level, into the male category because otherwise it's cheating. The extreme left position is gender is a construct so anyone should be able to play anywhere they identify regardless of biology. My openness to separate leagues, if feasible, is very much a traitor to my "tribe".
My legal position is also very centrist. On the left you have the Minnesota decision. It basically says "sex" is an identity, therefore barring someone from their identified sex is sex discrimination. The right position is equally unmeritorious: that women are some fragile little things that need to be protected and therefore their protection from discrimination amounts to the right to have a completely sealed league. I subscribe to Williams v. Kincaid. Treat it as a disability, which requires you to balance the rights....they are not absolute....a wheelchair bound person has the right to new builds and certain others to be disabled accessed....a wheelchair bound person does not have the right to demand ever bathroom in America be retrofitted and contain safety bars, even if in private homes.
I can't help it if you are bigots. That's up to you. Everyone is a little bit bigoted. But there are certain things that have crossed over the line. You certainly have. Your friend SOTL certainly has. When you do, it's fair to call you on it. Something more for you to reflect on: I've condemned EOTL and his behavior several times even if he's on my side....I have yet to hear you do the same for SOTL. So my hierarchy of the worst people on this forum remains: you, SOTL, EOTL, in said order....the blatant use of hate words by SOTL pushed him over EOTL and you still occupy the top spot because (despite been given a pass had you admitted to some kind of a disability which inadvertently makes you cross over the line) of everyone, you ought to know better.
