The damage he can inflict is in some ways greater: Republicans attacking us keeps allies on alert, ready to resist. But when Democrats begin to adopt the same rhetoric, that resistance dissolves. Transphobia inside the party is not a treatable wound inflicted by the far right—it is a malignancy, slow-moving but devastating, one that threatens to hollow out decades of progress from within. If it spreads unchecked, it could mark the end of so much our community has fought to preserve.

The entire article is excellent (as usual from Erin), but that especially gets to the heart of why so many trans people are immediately pumping the brakes on this shit. And why so many Democratic voters are unwilling to even consider that this is a problem that urgently needs to be fixed, before it gets worse.