The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience by Zoë Playdon

The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

Zoë Playdon

384 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction gender history lgbtqia+ challenging emotional informative medium-paced

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The life story of an aristocratic Scottish trans man—whose secret 1968 legal case had a profound impact on trans rights for decades. Ewan Forbes was born to a wealthy, landowning family, holders of a baronetcy, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 19...

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