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Rebecca Root

Rebecca Root (born 10 May 1969) is a British actress and stand-up comedian. She was rated 18th in The Independent on Sunday's Rainbow List 2014, which named her as one of the very few openly trans actresses in mainstream television, alongside Laverne Cox and Adèle Anderson. She played the leading role in the 2015–2016 BBC2 sitcom Boy Meets Girl. Root is also a voice coach, teaching at the East 15 Acting School and from her home in Highgate, London. She started that career after she transitioned and acting work became harder to find. She graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with a Master of Arts in Vocal Studies. Her thesis, "There and Back Again: Adventures in Genderland", has since been published in the peer reviewed journal Voice and Speech Review, and she advertises voice therapy specifically for transgender people to help them "find a voice they feel fits their gender". In 2015 Root starred in the BBC Radio 4 drama 1977, about the transgender popular composer Angela Morley who had become a household name to British radio audiences as Wally Stott. Written by Sarah Wooley,[10] it followed the year in which Morley was enlisted to complete composition of the musical soundtrack to the film Watership Down in three weeks flat.

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Title:

The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment (MP3)

Written by:

Zoë Playdon 

Read by:

Rebecca Root; Zoë Playdon 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

12 hours 51 minutes 

MP3 size:

556 MB 

Published:

November 11 2021 

Available Date:

November 11 2021 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781867580812 

Genres:

Non-fiction; Biography; British; Historical; LGBTQI+ 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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AUD$ 29.95

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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.

Prologue and Acknowledgements read by the author. Ewan Forbes was born Elizabeth to a wealthy landowning family in 1912. As young as six, it was clear that the gender assigned to him at birth was incorrect. With the financial means of seeing specialist doctors in Europe and procuring synthetic hormones, Ewan was able to live as a boy, and then as a man, even correcting the gender on his birth certificate in order to marry. Then, in 1965, Ewan found himself in line to inherit the family baronetcy. But when a cousin contested the claim on the grounds that the inheritance could only be passed on to a male heir, Ewan was forced to defend his gender in an extraordinary court case, testing the legal system of the time to the limits of its understanding. A never-before-told story based on years of archival research, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes draws on the fields of law, medicine, psychology and biology to reveal a remarkable hidden history, uncovering records that were considered so threatening that they were removed from view for decades.