Just an open sports competition seems perfectly reasonable to me too. I do think women's sport should exist, and women should be encouraged to sport and have a healthy lifestyle too, but right now you can't set a limit on 'women' without it immediately becoming a highly political statement.
Also on the whole left movement and lgbtletters, one very big thing with this part
I'm not content saying the proponents of a movement are all guilty. I don't oppose condemning the ones who say "any sacrifice is acceptable" because they're the ones being disingenuous with their support. You're not interested in helping a group be treated better. You're only interested in giving minimal effort in showing your support and going along with whatever as long as you get the recognition for being there. Fuck off outta here with that shit.
Is that those people are encouraging further extremes by the logic of one-upping others and encouraging there to be always more and something else to fight for. Another frontier to push, another norm to shatter, and so on, so they can always keep their position of being a 'good guy activist'. They don't usually care about the issues, just about the social cred as Bob points out.
They have nothing to lose by pushing further, and they have everything to lose for stepping on the brakes and asking "Is this too far?". So naturally they will never be satisfied
They're the people who will buy whatever they can to show off how much of a 'good side of history' activist they are, leading to this being further encouraged by capitalism.
The problem with progressive ideaology, though, is it still fits too well into that region of big business trying to capitalize on someone's self-expression. Unfortunately, when there is money to be made, big business will seek to appeal to the group who can raise their bottom line.
And business has become very good at encouraging people into this mindset of the highly public actvist (Though often restricted to just social media or a small internet forum/server). That's how they sell products, you only need to put out the right message for them and they'll spread it to everyone with the same opinion for the social cred- Free advertising just for having a product say the right thing, and plenty of people willing to spend money on it to show their support for the movement.
Similarly, outrage for doing something against the movement followed by an apology is more free publicity, and often a planned marketing strategy these days. That's how Burger King tweeted that women belong in the kitchen, and then a few hours later after the outrage has spread they mention their culinary school scholarships for women.