For me and other trans people, there isn't really much of a difference between electing Josh Turek or the Republican. They both support our genocide and will vote for legislation designed to bring about our physical end. I won't vote for my genocide.

And the Democrats go farther to the right because they're chasing Republican votes, because that's all they can see in the election results. That's why I'm not sitting the election out and I'm not voting for the Republican. They can look at that and see "Well if we didn't nominate a genocidal freak, we could have had that vote."

Elections aren't just going farther to the right either. Like I said, democratic socialists are getting elected in response to the rightward shift, you can't just ignore that.