softtrade:

I feel like it’s not a coincidence that when people are talking abt trans women at stonewall there is a tendency to frequently leave Miss Major out, because she’s the only one still alive and that gets in the way of people’s comfortable crystallized hagiography and people will always prefer a silent trans woman icon over a live, complex, speaking trans woman

If there was any doubt that people like trans women more when they can’t speak for themselves, here’s Sylvia Rivera’s Google NGram: