If you can't see liberation in a movement which has shifted homosexual behaviour from a perversion to be condemned and criminally punished to relationships openly celebrated through marriage in the space of half a century, it's quite likely because you're actively trying not to see it. And much of the policing of language "if you've had sex with another man then of course you're gay", "pansexual cannot be a thing and suggesting there are more than two genders is Cultural Marxist rubbish that should be resisted", "of course people born with penises cannot be addressed as female" comes from outside the movement.
"Controlling discourse" seems to be the new "states rights" argument for a form of social conservatism which held no objections whatsoever to purging public discourse of any positive reference to behaviour they believed to be immoral when they held the whip hand...