 I think of feminism as having opened up people's thinking about what it means to carve out your life as a man or as a woman or not or somewhere in between. It has expanded. It really had an extremely liberating effect, certainly on me and I think on a lot of other people. It makes it possible to think that you can actually design and create your own life and that you don't have to live in gender role stereotypes and that you can be a self created person. At the time that I photographed Felicity, which was around 1984, she was already quite elderly. First I think I'll tell you about what I saw when I walked in. There was this very nice, very well put together, elderly lady sitting on her sofa and right behind her, as you'll see, is a beautiful photograph hanging on the wall. It's quite large and it's a picture that little John, who was called John most of his life, it was a photograph taken by his father of himself dressed as a little girl with his mother. The reason he was dressed as a little girl is that this was the day that he was going to get his first haircut and it was quite common at that time for little boys to have long hair. So they dressed him up in the clothing of the little girl across the street and they took a series of lovely pictures and they went, I've got his haircut. The pictures were put away and it wasn't until he was 12 years old that John ran across these pictures in the attic. They brought back the feeling of this really wonderful day that he had experienced with his parents of the wind blowing up his little dress and the attention in the sun and just the whole feeling of attention that he'd gotten as this very pretty little girl. And that's when, in his case, his cross-dressing started. It is possible to create a satisfying life for yourself as a person who's bi-gendered, which is what I, or cross-dresser, which is really somebody who goes back and forth in the case of John slash Felicity, that it does not have to be seen as it usually has been by the media as some horrible, bizarre, grotesque, tragic thing.