Kristy Leigh

Kristy Leigh is a former graphic artist who has been illustrating on a professional basis for over thirty years. Since the advent of the World Wide Web, she has turned her attention towards fetish-related material, roughly twenty-five percent of which involves TG content.

Working in a variety of different styles, she has contributed to a number of British and European magazines, employing various pseudonyms to protect her privacy. By 2007, she had established her own website, publishing original fiction under the Lakehurst imprint. Basing her visual approach on old-school "thrillers" of the 1960s, Kristy's stories covered a range of interests including Caught With Consequences, Magical Transformations, Surgical Reassignment, Transhumanism, and Cyberfemme to name but a few. Despite a generally positive response from readers and enthusiasts, the Lakehurst website was shut down by a well-known internet watchdog group in 2008, based on false allegations of "inappropriate material."

Kristy has subsequently become an outspoken critic of digital censorship, defending the artistic and literary rights of gay, lesbian and transgendered individuals. She remains a controversial figure within the online community due to her unwavering and often confrontational stance on the issues of free speech and unrestricted expression.