Original sentence: Contemporary proponents of identity politics including feminism, equality for gay people, and anti-racist activists generally take constructionist viewpoints.Essentialist positions on gender, race, and characteristics, consider these to be fixed traits while not allowing for variation in the group or individual.Extreme examples of essentialism, which hold that these characteristics are inherent and accompanied by negative ones, include racism, sexism, and anti-gay bias.However, these proponents have taken various positions including essentialist ones
Edited sentence: Extreme examples of essentialism are racism, sexism, and homophobia.In gender-theory and race-theory essentialists categorize a group of people by a few fixed characteristics while not allowing for change or variation in the group.Some feminists and fighters for gay rights have taken essentialist positions