Transgender Initiative

Love is love, and love must win! 🌈

Pita Limjaroenrat, the frontrunner to be Thailand's next prime minister, recently attended a pride event where he promised to pass laws protecting the country's LGBTQ+ people.

Read more about it here: https://ow.ly/mTvO50OMjZn

It isn't hyperbole.

Ewan Forbes was a Scottish nobleman who began his transition at age 15, around 1927. He was among the first transgender Europeans to have their gender accepted in court after his cousin sued to inherit his baronetcy. The court eventually ruled in Ewan's favor in 1968 and he inherited his family's 17th century pink castle in Brux. The massive estate was reportedly an inspiration for Walt Disney's castle design.

I was completely captivated by these photos of him so I decided to colorize them. That's him with his wife Isabella Mitchell on the left (1966) and a golden lab named "Stolen Day" on the right (1952).

Ewan published a 1984 memoir, The Aul' Days, which focused on his different journeys. More recently, Zoë Playdon wrote The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes. It follows Ewan's legal case and transition.

The Aul' Days: archive.org/details/auldaysforb00forb/page/n1/mode/
Hidden Case: transreads.org/ewanforbes/