I agree with most of the bulleted points on your list (automation, not free trade killed most jobs), but for transgendered Americans, using the bathroom is far from a luxury. It's a constant threat, it's fear of being beaten to a pulp or murdered. Calling the ability to safely use a public restroom without threat of violence is extremely privileged on your part and it costs a lot less to protect these people than fix those HUGE problems you listed. There is no good reason to ignore helping these people just because there are larger, systemic problems to address, kind of a false dichotomy you set up there. I don't want to throw around an accusation that you are being cryptotransphobic with this, but please do re-examine your privilige and ask yourself why you are conflating basic safety for transgendered people and "urban elitism," ESPECIALLY because trans members of our society are most likely on the fringes or in the lower class.

There is also another way to look at this that doesn't involve social justice and privilege examination. The problems you listed require ACTIVE solutions. Big, active solutions. The kind of solutions the Democratic party, and this really pains me to say, is too much of a clusterfuck right now to deal with given their internal struggles and, yknow, the entirely red government. Now, this red government on local levels as been aggressively targeting LGBTQ communities and trying to dehumanize them and strip them of their rights and safeties. The republicans are taking first swing at this, so all the Dems have to do is create REACTIVE solutions, which is a helluva lot faster and easier to do. Trans people under attack in public? REACT with legislation to protect them and fight to repeal legislation meant to attack them. These are solutions that the party is able to do, so it is what they are publicizing and what is being covered and discussed. Now that Republicans control all of government, there really isn't much for the left to do at all on the federal level, so the most they can fight for during the next four years is protecting civil liberties under an openly homophobic and LGBTQ hostile government.