You literally cannot read. I am explicitly discussing races with no Republicans in them; your response is complete nonsense.

I find this to be idiocy. 1, 0, and -1 are different numbers, and different races require different strategies. And you’ve entirely abandoned my original point, which is that while your framework may hold for some races, it cannot hold for all of them, mechanically.

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.

This year. Have you read the policy positions in the linked article? A democrat is literally campaigning on getting rid of our healthcare

And how does that candidate compare to the Republican opponent?

Democrat will take your healthcare. Republican will take your life.

"It's such a hard choice this year!"

I can't think of a good phrasing for the question (this is like version 6 or so as I type), so apologies for that. I don't envy your position at all, but I was just curious as I was trying to think through scenarios. I'm lucky that my democratic candidate (the most progressive one in the primary that thankfully won it) considers (correctly in my opinion) that trans rights are human rights. I don't think they'll win (heavily-gerrymandered rural district), but I hope that they do.

Do you worry that, were you to vote republican, it would make other groups in the future less likely to support a candidate in favor of trans rights over one that more directly helps them? Put another way, if your vote causes peoples' rights to backslide, will they help or forgive you for what they might perceive as holding everyone hostage? I would worry that people, especially those whom are not traditionally as marginalized and not having strong opinions on trans rights to begin with, might be less supportive as a whole in that environment.

Again, I don't envy you, and feel free not to answer; I'm just trying to understand thoughts and strategies.

"This phone I want to buy doesn't have a feature I want. I guess I'll just get one from Temu that also lacks that feature."