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The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes - The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment (Paperback)
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The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes - The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment (Paperback)
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The never-before-told story of Ewan Forbes and the landmark case
that rocked British society and transformed transgender experience
to this day *LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION
CROWNS* 'A remarkable story' The Times 'Almost reads like a
thriller' Sunday Times 'One of the most important pieces of
investigative journalism ever written about trans people' i
------------------- Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a
wealthy landowning family in 1912. It quickly became clear that the
gender applied to him at birth was not correct, and from the age of
six he began to see specialists in Europe for help. With the
financial means of procuring synthetic hormones, Ewan was able to
live as a boy, and then as man, and was even able to correct the
sex on his birth certificate in order to marry. Then, in 1965, his
older brother died and Ewan was set to inherit the family
baronetcy. After his cousin contested the inheritance on the
grounds that it could only be inherited by a male heir, Ewan was
forced to defend his male status in an extraordinary court case,
testing the legal system of the time to the limits of its
understanding. In The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes, Zoe Playdon draws
on the fields of law, medicine, psychology and biology to reveal a
remarkable hidden history, uncovering for the first time records
that were considered so threatening that they had been removed from
view for decades.
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