A guy called 'Miss'

Rob Moodie officially becomes Miss Alice
21 October 2006



The lawyer formerly known as Rob Moodie is now officially Miss Alice. First name Miss, last name Alice.

A statutory declaration to the registrar of births, deaths and marriages has made it legal, he has applied to the High Court to have his name changed on the roll of barristers and solicitors, and the Law Society has been advised.

The 68-year-old Feilding lawyer says he is revelling in the changes. With spring in the air he reaches for something light and flouncy to wear.

"There's the freedom of getting up in the morning and deciding what you are going to wear without following a stereotype."

There are other advantages to being Miss Alice. "I have discovered . . . pretty flowers and bows and all sorts of things."

Contradictions remain. Like his moustache. He says he is not masquerading as a woman. He is still Rob to some people but some friends now call him Miss.

He has already worn an Alice in Wonderland outfit to the Court of Appeal and says he will continue to wear women's clothes for court appearances.
"Some days I'm in court and I'm the prettiest thing there."

The heterosexual, married, father of three, has previously worn kaftans and lava-lavas as a reaction to macho culture.

He returned to wearing women's clothes in earnest this year as a protest against what he says is the corrupt way King Country farmers Margaret and Keith Berryman were treated after an army-built bridge on their farm collapsed, killing the man who was driving across it.

Miss Alice's wife, who has apparently accepted the name change as she did the women's clothes, will remain Sue Moodie.

- The Dominion Post

Good on him. ...So, I suppose he'd be formally addressed as Mr. Alice - just a bit odd, but it's the name he wants. He's definitely not the oddest cross-dresser I've seen or met.