DoomsdaysCW<p>Discrimination against trans Olympians has roots in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NaziGermany" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NaziGermany</span></a></p><p>The forgotten Olympic history of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransAthletes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransAthletes</span></a>.</p><p>by Alex Abad-Santos<br />Updated Aug 1, 2024</p><p>Excerpt: "Outside of the [Olympic] Games, trans people face so much backlash, often for simply existing. The conversation around sports is particularly fraught, from children’s athletics right up through the pros. Despite the International Olympic Committee vowing to be more inclusive, the future for trans athletes is unclear.</p><p>"It all raises the question: How did we get to this point, and did it always have to be this way?</p><p>"The answers found in historian and journalist <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MichaelWaters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MichaelWaters</span></a>’s The Other Olympians: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fascism</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Queerness" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Queerness</span></a>, and the Making of Modern Sports might be surprising. Waters’s book traces the emergence of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zden%C4%9BkKoubek" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ZdeněkKoubek</span></a>, a track and field star representing the country formerly known as Czechoslovakia who, at 21, won two medals — a gold in the 800m and a bronze in the long jump — at the 1934 Women’s World Games. (The Women’s World Games was the precursor to women competing at the Olympics). In 1935, Koubek announced that he would be living life as a man and swiftly became an international celebrity.</p><p>"Perhaps the most intriguing facet to Koubek’s story was in the public response. Koubek was more welcomed and celebrated than we might imagine. There was an open-mindedness and empathy to the reception of Koubek and his gender identity and expression in the 1930s.</p><p>"Waters also pinpoints where and when that changed, specifically at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/1936Olympics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>1936Olympics</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nazi</span></a> Germany. Armed with a propensity for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>eugenics</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderAnxiety" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderAnxiety</span></a>, and a startling lack of scientific evidence, a small set of Nazi officials influenced the International Olympic Committee into <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderSurveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderSurveillance</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransPanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransPanic</span></a> — stuff that eerily mirrors the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/transphobic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>transphobic</span></a> attacks that athletes, cis and trans alike, face today."</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/364032/trans-athletes-olympics-2024?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vox.com/culture/364032/trans-a</span><span class="invisible">thletes-olympics-2024?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransgenderAthletes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransgenderAthletes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SexTesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SexTesting</span></a> <br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a></p>
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DoomsdaysCW<p>The Long History of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SexTesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SexTesting</span></a> in the Olympics and Other Elite Sports</p><p>Here’s the long history of sex testing in elite sports like the Olympics and where the science really stands.</p><p>By Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi & Jeffery DelViscio </p><p>"Rachel Feltman: There have been a lot of headlines in recent years about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransgenderAthletes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransgenderAthletes</span></a>. But this isn’t actually the first time debates over biological sex have caused controversy and exclusion in the sports world.</p><p>"Even athletes who identify with the sex they were assigned at birth, meaning people with XX chromosomes who were assigned female at birth and identify as women today, can find themselves banned from elite competition on the basis of their biology."</p><p>Read more / listen:<br /><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/sex-testing-in-the-olympics-and-other-elite-sports-is-based-on-flawed/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scientificamerican.com/podcast</span><span class="invisible">/episode/sex-testing-in-the-olympics-and-other-elite-sports-is-based-on-flawed/</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransAthletes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransAthletes</span></a> <br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CaitlynJenner" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CaitlynJenner</span></a> issues surprising statement after <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> signs executive order affecting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransAthletes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransAthletes</span></a><br /> <br />The former Olympian has left some of her X followers feeling 'confused'</p><p>One follower wrote: "Legitimate question - as a trans woman, are you cool with them just slowly erasing trans people, their rights, and everything they’ve worked towards?"</p><p>Rhianna Benson, February 16, 2025</p><p>"According to Reuters, enforcing his ban 'may be difficult' for Trump 'to enforce', being that his current options 'range from looking at birth certificates, which can be altered, to inspecting the bodies of children, an alternative that most would find unpalatable at best'.</p><p>"Transgender athlete Chris Mosier, who also spoke to the publication, has since responded: 'Anti-trans school sports bans are difficult to enforce because they rely on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SexTesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SexTesting</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BodyPolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BodyPolicing</span></a> for implementation and enforcement.</p><p>"'An increased scrutiny on athletes' bodies creates serious harm to all women and girls who are perceived as 'more masculine' due to being <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>queer</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/intersex" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>intersex</span></a>, or otherwise out of alignment with narrow, white-centric norms of femininity.'" [Or those of us with higher androgen levels naturally! 🤚🏼 ]</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://www.tyla.com/news/politics/caitlyn-jenner-transgender-athletes-donald-trump-policy-support-157158-20250206" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tyla.com/news/politics/caitlyn</span><span class="invisible">-jenner-transgender-athletes-donald-trump-policy-support-157158-20250206</span></a><br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenderPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GenderPolice</span></a></p>
Danči🦝<p>Diesen Menschen geht es sicher nur um die Fairness im Sport 🤡</p><p><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/world-athletics-to-introduce-mandatory-sex-testing-for-female-competitions-13335486" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.sky.com/story/world-athle</span><span class="invisible">tics-to-introduce-mandatory-sex-testing-for-female-competitions-13335486</span></a></p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/sextesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sextesting</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/WorldAthletics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldAthletics</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/TransAthletes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransAthletes</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/transwoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transwoman</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/female" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>female</span></a></p>
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