Alexis Arquette, transgender activist and actress, dies at 47

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LOS ANGELES — To hear her sister Patricia tell it, Alexis Arquette knew who she was before she even had words enough to express it. “I remember Alexis growing up, and we’d be in school in kindergarten, and they’d say, ‘Get in line, boys here, girls here.’ Alexis would always get in the girls’ line,” Patricia…