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Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet

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414:. The troupe was largely female, meaning that many male parts were expected to be danced by women, and Forbes embraced the opportunity to be in public in a kilt and jacket. By this time, Forbes's heart was set on studying medicine. However, his father refused to fund his studies, arguing that since there was more than enough work to be done managing the estate, there was no need for him to study further. Ewan resolved to fund his own studies, aiming to put aside £1,000 to cover the costs. In 1933, he studied under the psychologist Leonhard Seif in 626: 686: 335: 218:, together with a large estate. This inheritance was challenged by his cousin, who argued that the re-registration was invalid; under this interpretation, Forbes would legally be considered a woman, and thus unable to inherit the baronetcy. The legal position was unclear, and it took three years before a ruling by the 544:
At the time, gender re-registration was permitted in a limited set of cases; the leading case, decided in 1965, had held that re-registration of this form was only permitted when "the sex of a child was indeterminate at birth and it was later discovered ... that an error had been made". The challenge
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races. He did not live in Alford, but remained at Brux, appointing a medical assistant to live in the town. The estate, left in the hands of a small resident staff, quickly ran into financial troubles. To raise a large amount of money quickly, Forbes sold the practice in Alford and returned to the
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in 1991, with additional documents released in 1994 after an appeal to the Home Secretary. However, further release of records was limited, with the Lord Advocate's office stating that disclosing the files "would not be appropriate", and the case would not be fully publicly documented until 2021.
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The judge's ruling was that "as a matter of probability, the second petitioner is a ... hermaphrodite" according with the legal requirement of "indeterminate at birth". It has been suggested that the judge desired to ensure the estate and the title was inherited by the "right" candidate, and was
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in reporting that the heir to the baronetcy was the Hon. Ewan Forbes-Sempill, "formerly registered as Elizabeth". However, this was challenged by his cousin John Forbes-Sempill, who argued that the 1952 re-registration was invalid. This would mean that Forbes was still legally considered a woman,
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The re-registration passed without much public comment, and the issue of his gender would remain a private one until 1965. That December, his elder brother died, leaving daughters but no sons, and thus posing a problem of inheritance. The barony could be inherited by heirs male or female, and so
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of 12 September 1952: "Dr E. Forbes-Sempill henceforth wishes to be known as Dr Ewan Forbes-Sempill". His plans had been known in advance to many of his patients, who were reported as universally supportive. Forbes was equally candid with the press, describing the situation to one reporter as "a
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The issue of Ewan's gender would later prove contentious; the birth registration recorded a female child, but Forbes later commented that this was "a ghastly mistake". Ewan was brought up as a girl alongside Margaret, but found childhood to be dominated by a growing gender insecurity. In early
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The level of secrecy of the case, which was criticised by some contemporary observers, meant that it was not properly recorded or published, and the exact facts of the argument were not known for some time. As a result, whilst it sharply differs from later rulings such as
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as well as in European languages. Forbes refused to go away to a girls' school, which meant being educated at home; at fifteen, he pressed to be allowed to go overseas to attend a pre-university course, and eventually settled on a co-educational institution in
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ghastly mistake. I was carelessly registered as a girl in the first place, but of course, that was forty years ago ... the doctors in those days were mistaken, too ... I have been sacrificed to prudery, and the horror which our parents had about sex."
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childhood, his mother began to call him "Benjie", a name that persisted among family and friends well into his later life. He spent a large amount of time playing with their cousins Patrick and David, and routinely dressed as a boy. In his book
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returned to his records of the case in 1999 and "concluded, with hindsight, that Forbes-Sempill was almost certainly a female-to-male transsexual"; the details that have since emerged of his treatment make it clear that he was a
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A month later, on 10 October, he married Isabella Mitchell, his housekeeper for the past five years, and formerly co-founder of his dance troupe. The marriage took place at the kirk in Kildrummy, which he had recently joined.
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On taking up the baronetcy, Forbes dropped Sempill from his surname; this had been adopted by the family in the 1880s when it inherited the barony, and there was no reason to persist once the titles were separated.
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On moving to Alford, Forbes had continued to present himself publicly as a man. In 1952, he formally became male by the simple process of requesting a warrant for birth re-registration from the
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Forbes died in 1991, leaving no children, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his cousin John, the relative who had made the legal challenge in the 1960s. His widow, Isabella, died in 2002.
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The Alford area was one of the largest medical practices in Great Britain, and in the winter months Forbes often had to travel through ten-foot snowdrifts in a converted
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With the inheritance case settled, he left the public eye and returned to the life of a rural landowner, continuing to live in his house at Brux. Forbes was an
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recognising his claim to the title. The case was heard in great secrecy, with the effect that it was unable to be considered in other judgments on the
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flexible with his judgement to obtain this result. The ruling continued to be challenged by John Forbes-Sempill, who caused it to be referred to the
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On the death of Lord Sempill in 1934, both the barony and the baronetcy passed to William, the eldest child. Forbes inherited an estate at
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of Aberdeen, registering himself as male, and changing his name to Ewan Forbes-Sempill. He announced this with a notice in the Aberdeen
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Lord Sempill insisted on a "strict Scottish" upbringing for his children, which meant that he was taught to speak and write fluently in
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As well as the harp, Forbes was an accomplished public reciter; in the summer of 1930, he won the Scots Verse recital contest at the
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in 1945. In addition to the normal work of a rural doctor, in 1946 Forbes was called upon to act as a medical officer for German
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in London in the late 1920s, Forbes studied in Dresden for a year, 1929–1930, before travelling through central Europe, visiting
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Finally, in 1912, a fourth child was born, christened Elizabeth Forbes-Sempill, and known to the family as "Betty".
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The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: The Transgender Trial That Threatened to Upend the British Establishment
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Barnes, Lesley-Anne (2007). "Gender Identity and Scottish Law: The Legal Response to Transsexuality".
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at the age of thirteen had led to him taking up skiing and figure-skating and winning a number of
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for Aberdeenshire in 1969. He published a book of reminiscences of his early years in 1984,
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Barnes, p. 166. The papers are reported as being held under reference CS258/1991/P892.
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The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience
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Casely, Gordon (5 March 2002). "Obituary: Isabella, Lady Forbes of Craigievar".
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observed in evidence that he felt Forbes' condition was closer to that of a
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described the medical tests involved as "not wholly conclusive". Professor
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unable to inherit the title, and so it would pass to John Forbes-Sempill.
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farm in 1952, running it directly as a going concern from then on.
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Playdon 2021, ch. 1. A number of pictures are in his memoir.
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In 1939, Forbes was accepted as a medical student at the
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and studied the harp under the principal harpist of the
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and officially registered as the youngest daughter of
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who were held in the area, due to his command of the
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Playdon, Zoë (May 2004). "The Case of Ewan Forbes".
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In 2021, Zoë Playdon published a book about Forbes,
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William Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill
Brux Castle
Isabella Mitchell
John Forbes-Sempill, 18th Lord Sempill
MBChB
general practitioner
trans man
John, Lord Sempill
baronetcy
William, Lord Sempill
Court of Session
intersex
Home Secretary
legal recognition of gender variance
Aberdeenshire
a barony
a baronetcy
heirs male
Sir William Forbes
John
land owner
Lovat Scouts
Black Watch
South African War
First World War
Battle of Loos

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