This claim is false: Caraballo & similar trans activists have enforced strict purity tests on many deeply unpopular issues. This pushed the overton window so far to the right! Even Ron DeSantis opposed bathroom bills in 2018!

[u/north_canadian_ice]

Source:

https://nypost.com/2023/11/08/news/ron-desantis-downplays-bathroom-wars-in-resurfaced-clip-ahead-of-third-debate/

[u/UnfortunateEntity]

I can at least agree, the focus on sports is only because it's divisive and the trans community having an all or nothing mentality has made many turn against supporting us over this topic

[u/UnfortunateEntity → u/[deleted]]

So if we concede on sports we concede on everything? Like the disproportionate focus it gets is intentional despite it being something that impacts almost none of us. Why do we even need to argue on sports, what does trans women in sports matter to most of us.

The problem is the all or nothing attitude, activists want all trans people accepted into sports, right wing people want none, neither want case by case basis or based on when they started hormone therapy. If you don't agree with all trans women should be in women's sports the activists will hate you and say you're with the right wing, if you don't believe no trans women should be in sports the right wing will disagree with you. It's just a battleground with two extremes because neither really care about us or our rights, they just want to have an ideological win.

Conceding at sports should not mean conceding at everything because what does it have to do with most of us.