Her help and support in the trans community was something much later in life. She lived most of her early part in stealth having been treated so badly by IBM. Yet her work there and then later was so important in setting to how modern computers process instructions and then later at Xerox for microprocessor design. Perhaps others would have done that work later, but it is her name on the text.

To me, her biggest gift was to show the even if you were treated like shit, you can move on and still shine. She was fired, went stealth and had no references, yet she started again and rose to do what she did at Xerox. Yeah, that takes a lot of guts and self determination.