Notice the difference there. With Nazis, you're not being repulsed by who they are, but by they fact that they support a genocidal ideology. That makes them bad people.

There is a biological determinism in your categorical thinking. Not to defend nazis, because I agree with your ethical stance on nazis, but the distinction you are making hinges on identity as an expression of will versus the expression of some inherent nature. There is a tradition in psychology that would naturalize fascism as a consequence of authoritarian personality, and that this personality type has genetic origins (https://www.sdu.dk/-/media/files/om_sdu/institutte...). If we accept the natural determination of authoritarian personality traits then our ethical stance on nazis, as well as how to engage with them, becomes a lot more problematic. Nazis, in this context, are no different than trans people. They are compelled by some internal force to express their nature. In order to maintain the distinction you are making you need to claim that will is absent in the case of trans people and present in the case of nazis.

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