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You don't understand why this is an emotional topic for people? Trans people (including trans kids) often commit suicide without gender-affirming care. It's a life-and-death issue.
I'm not saying that there's no room for logic. Far from it. But when people blast you because they think that you sound like a bigot, that's why. This isn't just a difference in opinion.
Centrists weren't the Nazis. Centrists were the ones who looked the other way and did nothing while people got hauled away to death camps.
(Also, talking about US politics is weird, because what's considered "centrist" in the US is actually right-wing in the rest of the developed world.)
That's really only true economically. On social issues the US is much more in alignment with the rest of the developed world. And of course, as always, there's a lot of variation by US state.