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A secret trial that transformed transgender rights

A secret trial that transformed transgender rights

FromHistory Extra podcast


A secret trial that transformed transgender rights

FromHistory Extra podcast

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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Nov 20, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In 1965, Scottish aristocrat Ewan Forbes stood to inherit his family’s baronetcy but, as a transgender man, he soon became embroiled in a top-secret legal case which had consequences that still affect the lives of trans people today. Zoe Playdon explores this still largely unknown story, in conversation with Matt Elton.(Ad) Zoe Playdon is the author of The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment (Bloomsbury, 2021). Buy it now from Amazon:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hidden-Case-Ewan-Forbes/dp/152661913X/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-viewingguide
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Released:
Nov 20, 2021
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