This sentence feels helpful. To dig into it a little bit: yes, her lived reality and the practical realities she's encountering now are definitely relevant. She has to navigate reality.

Of course, her job as an elected rep shouldn't involve renouncing her gender. "Don't be trans" isn't written into the Constitution. She should be able to live a real life and be her own person, and she should represent her district, including the people in it who are trans like her.

It's just that some awful characters are right now setting the tone in the Congress, so navigating explicitly transphobic rules will be her reality in 2025, though it isn't the Platonic ideal of what her job should be.