I am not sure how to better phrase this to come off as not attacking you, but before I respond to the comment's contents I need to make this clear. "Supporting transgenders" is a shitty phrasing that is used to dehumanize transgender people. Transgender is not a noun, I am not "a transgender", I am a transgender person or a transgender woman (also common shit, transwoman instead of trans woman). Again, I am not trying to accuse you of being transphobic, I just want to educate anyone reading this as I see this all too often on the internet!

1. Republicans are transphobic, that's just a fact. They'll also accuse even the most transphobic Democrat of being too pro trans people. Turek is actively campaigning on harsher anti-trans policies than those that exist in Republican lead states. They are both awful, but only one of them is in direct opposition to their own party's platform.

2. You're so close to getting where I am coming from with this one. If DNC leadership sees that running on a platform of bigotry wins elections, they'll double down on it hard. We'll be their "acceptable sacrifice". Bodily autonomy is the stated policy today, but what about in 2028? 2030? 2032? Will that still be the policy in a few years if people like Turek win? I don't want the party to normalize transphobic policies as an acceptable stance for candidates to hold.

"There’s a saying in Germany. If there’s a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis." I'd rather not to have people like this sit down at the Democrat's table.

Look at what happened in the UK with Labour. They swung super far right on trans rights immediately upon winning. Trans people are worse off now than they were under the conservatives.