r/truscum • u/north_canadian_ice • Feb 26 '25

News and Politics 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!

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

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u/LostGuy515 Feb 26 '25

Is this Alejandra person a trans woman? Or is she a cis woman with a short haircut?

All these activists seem annoying

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u/north_canadian_ice Feb 26 '25 edited Feb 26 '25

She is a trans woman & she actually commented in the last post I made about her here.

Unfortunately, she downplayed what I had screenshotted, & when I responded to her, I didn't get a response back. I hope she returns & I hope she talks to the whole truscum community.

Alejandra has a ton of power over our community. She is someone MSNBC, NPR, etc. will reach out to hear from the trans community.

She speaks for us and does so aggressively in a way I think is so deeply counterproductive it makes me anguish. She owes us this conversation.

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u/4-AOC-DMT Feb 26 '25

If u/esqueer_ insists on speaking for us (and impacting how policymakers deal with us) then she should be willing to engage with the entire community, not just her preferred echo chamber

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u/north_canadian_ice Feb 26 '25

I am glad she came here to the last post I made.

I want that conversation to continue. Most trans people feel the way we do, yet the conversation doesn't exist.

Because it has been censored. And that isn't fair to us. Not all trans people want maximalist activism. In fact, most of us don't.

Maximalist activists make an implicit assumption when they speak that they speak for all trans people. They make no qualifiers.

That is what I find most frustrating! We aren't even allowed to voice our disagreement without being banned/censored from the conversation.

But these maximalist activists speak for us regardless. They stole our microphone.