No one should call her the things she was called and I commend her for sticking up for herself. The words she chose represent only a fraction of her perspective but expose a great deal - our value as women is determined and defined by our juxtaposition to the men in our lives.
AOC is a nightmare for the US as she currently serves. Young and old alike think she is a beacon of hope and change but she has bought the TWAW mantra wholeheartedly. She is dangerous because she is a an outspoken trailblazer while being painfully woke. She participated in fundraising for Mermaids... she helped raise money for a UK nonprofit that ignores safeguards, misrepresents the law, and campaigns for the chemical and surgical modifications to healthy children's bodies.
She believes that TW should be in women's prisons in cells with women, she believes that bio women are privileged over TW, that TW belong competing against women in sport, that "[g]oing by track record, I'd feel safer in a bathroom with a trans woman than a powerful male executive any day of the week.". She clearly does not grasp basic bio, basic expectations of privacy or safety, and is happily throwing women under the bus via her women's rights position wherein she includes and elevates TW above women/girls.
She is intelligent but intelligence alone does not make a good POTUS. I can see her potential but if she continues her current path she is no help to actual women or children and actually quite harmful. If she, Biden, and their ilk get their way women's sex-based protections under the Civil Rights Act and Titles will be useless as they will include any man that says he's a woman... we already have Self-ID here in many states without any hurdles to jump through (short of name changes).
She believes that my voice as a survivor is not important because TW say that they are more vulnerable - that I have to "be nice" and capitulate to the now women-realm overlords (transferring it from the fraying ends of the straight men's oversight to a group of men that have decided that they 'woman' better than I).
As it stands currently, she is a proud misogynist and no ally to any female or any child.
Hopefully as she matures she gains insight and revises her platform - I will be watching as I would like for her to see the sunlight and reform to where I can look at her as a viable candidate beyond her current seat. I'm not holding my breath but I am hopeful as while I disagree with most of her platform she will grow like we all do and in growing many (like myself) change policy preferences.