A Forgotten Athlete, a Nazi Official, and the Origins of Sex Testing at the Olympics
His first surgical operation was completed around February, 1936. The technology for female-to-male surgeries was limited; the first phalloplasty wasn’t performed until that fall, in Russia. Koubek never described his procedure except to say that it “did not hurt me at all.” After the second operation, a nurse led him to the men’s ward, where … Read more
