Marilyn Sarah Robinson, a founding board member of the Transgender Law Center, died June 30, according to friends. She was 60.
Ms. Robinson, a transgender woman, passed away following a second open heart surgery at UCSF, according to Mark Freeman, who got to know her when she appeared in his film, "Transgender Tuesdays: A Clinic in the Tenderloin." "She was well aware that she might never leave the hospital, according to her oldest surviving sister of the streets, Lisa Nicole Altman," Freeman wrote in an email. "They were the hottest 20-somethings together 'back in Denver and New Orleans, and we stayed friends for 40 years,'" Freeman said Altman told him.