@BEAUJONES:
Both parties are amoral.
The Democrats are not great but they are certainly less amoral than the Republicans. The Democrats are a conservative party while the Republicans have shifted so far to the right that they are regressive, authoritarian, nationalist, xenophobic, corporatist, anti-democracy, etc. The Republicans are not amoral, they are immoral.
The big lie the extreme right tells the American people is that the Democrats are lefties. In Europe they would be center or even right of center, not even progressive in the least. They are very conservative and generally maintain the status quo. That includes everyone from Pelosi and Schumer to Obama, Biden, and the Clintons. Even Bernie Sanders, a Social Democrat, would not be considered left-of-center in Europe.
Universal healthcare and universal civil rights are not extreme left concepts. They would not even be considered mildly progressive in any western nation other than in the U.S. Obamacare, for instance, is just insurance that you pay out-of-pocket for with a government subsidy. In most similar nations, everyone has healthcare coverage without having to come up with a monthly payment equivalent to hundreds of dollars. Yet the Republicans act like it is equivalent to absolute communism. That's how brainwashed Americans are.
Sorry to continue the shift away from the original topic of trans rights in the UK, but the record needs to be set straight. The Democrats in the U.S. are not progressive, they are conservative, and they cannot be counted on to safeguard trans rights, but they are without a doubt better for civil rights than the Republicans, who want to control women's wombs, separate children from families and lock them in cages, deport Dreamers who have lived most of their lives in the U.S., discriminate against trans and gay people in the guise of religious freedom, and do away with social systems that help everyone including public schools, public hospitals, even public mail delivery, etc.