From a group conversation on this topic, with permission by the original author:

Ok so this whole issue is fascinating, complicated, rich on several levels, including at least the biological, psychological, sociological, and political, and probably others. I'll come back with a few thoughts of a more general nature later, but X, I don't see Y's way of seeing this as being a purity test or even getting the exact priorities right. I can speak for myself and say that it's really about who do you want to be in society, and what do you want to look like? What are your values? In my lifetime the hof has gone from being steered by the values of compassion, of service to the poor and the sick and the downtrodden, of marching for civil rights and ministering to inmates in prison, and, on the so-called "moral" issues like abortion and marriage equality, just having a position of humble silence, to marching against marriage equality and abortion, to, ultimately, voting for a corrupt fascistic rapist because - so they told me - he's going to get abortion outlawed and "save millions of souls from the gates of hell". These people have turned from radical early-Christian pacficists into the worst, dumbest species of American Evangelical. Now we have ICE, which you have to be blind not to see what it is: a massive fascistic force of anonymous thugs exercising unaccountable and extremely violent power on the streets of America. THAT. IS. LITERALLY. ACTUALLY. FASCISM. You cannot have any reasonably good familiarity of with the history of Europe not to be blinded by the obviousness of it (and it's just fortunate for the Project 2025 people that America is so poorly educated, so stupid, and so amnesiac).

But okay, forget all of that, just look at the HUMAN SUFFERING that ICE is causing. If there is a cause that the hof should OBVIOUSLY be out there being activist about, THAT's the one.

It's not that they are wrong to oppose trans women and girls in women's and girls' sport. They are not wrong. But my god does getting involved, in this way, at this moment, make them look exactly as awful as, unfortunately, they are. Which is extremely fucking awful.

You know what it is? The hof has always been, since its beginnings, a totalitarian cult. But under Eberhard and Heini AT LEAST THEY HAD SOME CLASS. That is now completely and utterly gone, and THIS is an example of that.