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@sofiav@mastodon.online

2024-08-02 20:38 UTC

This is fascinating. There were trans and intersex athletes competing at the Olympics in the early years, but everything changed during/after the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany, when the Nazis decided to go after Zdeněk Koubek, a trans man competing for Czechoslovakia https://www.vox.com/culture/364032/trans-athletes-olympics-2024

Replies (6)

  • @sofiav@mastodon.online 2024-08-03 01:01

    Since this is popping off, can someone tell me how to pronounce Zdeněk Koubek?

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  • @sofiav modern Christianity is nothing but white supremacy.

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  • @funkula@goblin.camp 2024-08-02 22:37

    @sofiav you could not pay me enough money to click the second hyperlink

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  • @iris@neuromatch.social 2024-08-03 05:59

    @sofiav it sounds like they didn't go after him so much as use the fact of his transition to radically restrict women's eligibility -- is that what you got too? I need to read up more from other sources to understand the full context, but what I've grasped so far is a more general shift toward policing gender that trans people were just an excuse for.

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  • @zilti@gts.lyrion.ch 2024-08-03 06:59

    @sofiav They can still compete to this day. And I assume you know why the disciplines are separated by sex, right?

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  • @nini@bitbang.social 2024-08-03 08:38

    @sofiav How unsurprising. Interesting but unsurprising, anti-trans sentiment has long had tight ties to the Nazis.

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