O'Leary also worked in the early 1970s to exclude trans people from gay rights issues because she felt that rights for trans people would be too difficult to attain.
O'Leary tamén traballou a principios da década de 1970 para excluír os travestis dos temas de dereitos gais, ao sentir que os dereitos dos travestis serían demasiado difíciles de conseguir.