Somewhere there is a little girl, maybe she doesn't know she's trans yet. Maybe she does. And when she knows for sure, in 2032 or something, and this country elects a full blown fascist after flirting with it for years, if you tell her that when it was time to choose you decided to not bother...
Hey tang. There already is a party that hates trans people. Go join that party.
Hey, thanks for checking in. Fuck off forever. 👍
...because one candidate wasn't as strong on trans rights and the other was in the American Nazi Party and they just were both bad, she won't look to you as a hero holding the line. She will look at you as a betrayer who couldn't be bothered to sully their precious moralizing by making a choice.
And more besides. Black and brown people. Women, cis and otherwise. They will look at you as insular, naive and self absorbed. And they'll be right! And we'll all suffer. And as we all go to the wall I hope someone smugly mutters to me about how any modicum of oppression is exactly the same as this