GREENWICH: Resident is Japan's first transsexual geisha
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10/13/2008
The reaction Mary Murdoch gets from walking down her street is very
different to how she was greeted in Japan.
Born Malcolm Murdoch, the 68-year-old says she recently became the
first transsexual geisha on a visit to Kyoto.
Mary, of Brownspring Drive, New Eltham, explained: "My ambition was to
dress up as a geisha and at first they were reluctant.
"But in the end I convinced them. I was the first person to actually
do this. They were very welcoming and put aside the normal rules for
foreign tourists.
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