Interview with Kirsty Scarlet Cass

Monika: Hello Kirsty! It is my sheer pleasure to welcome you to “The Heroines of My Life”!

Kirsty: Thank you It is a pleasure to be interviewed by you.

Monika: How are you doing these days?

Kirsty: I have never felt better thank you now I’m living my life how it should be.

Monika: Where did you grow up?

Kirsty: I was born in Crawley West Sussex England and I have been here ever since.

Monika: Could you describe your childhood? When did you feel for the first time that you should not be a boy or man ?

Kirsty: I had a happy childhood but from a very early age I preferred the company of females rather than boys, and as I got older I knew that I was different but did not know why.

Interview with Ar’lene D. Lafferty

Monika: Hello Ar’lene! Welcome to “Interviews with Transgender Icons”! How does it feel to be an icon?

Ar’lene: Hello Monika and Darling Friends, Sister and Brothers. I never thought I was a community “icon”. Thank you for the honor! It makes me feel proud and willing to do more for our “Trans-family”.

Monika: What are you doing these days?

Ar’lene: These days, I’m writing my autobiography, a task that seems highly difficult for me. Since I have a lot of impasses. All my reasons for the impasses will be revealed in my book.

Monika: Where did you grow up?

Ar’lene: I was first raised in Chicago. At age fifteen (15), my family and I moved to Los Angeles after a vacation (holiday) visit. We started, first for a few weeks in Hollywood, until my parents located an apartment in Sherman Oaks; a San Fernando Valley Community.