Back then the mentality was different. They all knew that these dudes in dresses were not women and would never be women. They were just gay men in dresses who wanted to play make-believe and people went 'sure sweetie, you amuse me.' Cross-dresser/transvestite (the ancestor of transbian) was straight men who dressed up as women for sexual fetish reasons and they just did their thing at home, not out in the clubs, drag queens and transsexuals were gay men. All of these people were seen as MEN. I don't know if gay men really wanted them around, but there was so few of them and there was a feeling of 1 - strength in numbers, and 2 - we have so few safe spaces for us anyway, so let's just coexist in this space together.

I was not alive back then and never met these dudes IRL, but nowadays Narcissistic Personality Disorder and other Cluster-B disorders play a huge role with these newest batch of trans identified men. If you notice they are all going "OMG ME ME ME EVERYTHING IS ALL ABOUT ME AND MY GIRL DICK THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE REVOLVES AROND MY FEMININE BUTTHOLE I AM UNCOMFORTABLE WHEN WE ARE NOT ABOUT ME??? DIE TERF DIEEEEE!!!" Like...................... There is no room inside of these men's heads to care about anything or anyone else. These men will literally marry a woman, have kids, decide to transition, and then smear their wives and underage kids as transphobes for not going along with his lunacy. There was a teenage girl on /r/amitheasshole crying because all she wanted was for her father to not show up to pick her up from school dressed like a female pornstar, and the father was making it all about himself and his feelings. His own child. Bruce Jenner was stealing his daughters clothes to wear and watching them fight with each other and not saying anything. These are extremely selfish people. They even sacrifice their own kids to the fetish.