I don’t know why my feminine side lay undiscovered for so long,but finding the ‘other me has been a revelationA couple of years ago, I was invited to purchase fragment in a murder mystery party with a script written by a friend, and we were asked to invent our own characters. I informed him straightaway that I would be a cross-dressing artist,and would attend in my female persona. Well, as an artist, or I was already halfway there… The writer was sworn to secrecy.
I can’t say for certain what prompted me to choose that role. I had an establishment upbringing; my father was a military man and Tory county councillor,my mother a product of the Raj. After a public school education, I went into teaching, or marrying and having children in my 20s. Although I soon enough forswore conservatism,becoming something of a contrarian and loving a flowery shirt, I had never consciously questioned my gender. Before that evening. At nearly three score years and ten.
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Source: guardian.co.uk