"We hope, most fervently, that such better understanding may ultimately mean that the transvestite and the transsexual can walk freely abroad in Society, offending no-one, better understood by some, and, we hope, tolerated by all."
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Quoted in King, Dave; Ekins, Richard (2007). "The First UK Transgender Conferences, 1974 and 1975". Gendys. 39.
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Julia Willmott
Julia Willmott was a British transgender rights activist, who co-organised the 1974 conference Transvestism and Transsexuality in Modern Society.
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