Despite the "pride" of the umbrella, the transgender community often faces steeper hurdles than their cisgender (LGB) peers.
However, in the aftermath of Stonewall, political priorities diverged. In the 1970s and 80s, mainstream gay and lesbian organizations often pursued a strategy of "respectability politics." To gain legal protections and social acceptance, they sought to distance themselves from "gender deviants"—transgender people, drag queens, and gender-nonconforming individuals were seen as liabilities. Notably, in 1973, the gay rights group that would become the Human Rights Campaign initially supported excluding trans people from the federal gay rights bill, a wound that the community has not forgotten. shemaletubecom top