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In the 1970s and 1980s, this tension was palpable. The early gay liberation movement, led largely by middle-class white gay men and lesbians, pursued a strategy of assimilation: arguing that being gay was an immutable characteristic, like race or ethnicity, and that gay people were "just like everyone else" except for who they loved. This framework had little room for transgender people, whose very existence challenged the binary nature of sex and gender itself. For many in the early movement, trans people were seen as an embarrassment—a liability in the fight for basic rights.