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Zdeněk Koubek: 1930s Czech Trans Athlete

In December 1935, after a successful career in women's sports, the Czech athlete Zdeněk Koubek announced he was going to be living as a man. Koubek, alongside the British athlete Mark Weston, touched off an international conversation about the possibilities of gender. In America, his transition was met, above all, with a sense of curiosity. In August 1936, Koubek traveled to New York to perform on Broadway. This negative, from the Hearst Vault at UCLA, was shot on August 12, right after his arrival in the U.S. Koubek would later visit Paris, where he danced on stage alongside Josephine Baker. *** I spent years researching the lives of Koubek and Weston, and I wrote about them in my book THE OTHER OLYMPIANS: QUEERNESS, FASCISM, AND THE MAKING OF MODERN SPORTS. It'll be published on June 4.