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Named a Most Anticipated Book by Esquire, Town & Country, and Electric Literature

Michael Waters performs an Olympian act of storytelling, using the stories of these extraordinary athletes to explore in brilliant detail the struggle for understanding and equality. Jonathan Eig, author of King: A Life, winner of the Pulitzer Prize


The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars.


In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, also assigned female at birth, announced that he, too, was a man. Periodicals and radio programs across the world carried the news; both became global celebrities. A few decades later, they were all but forgotten. And in the wake of their transitions, what could have been a push toward equal

The Other Olympians

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Named a Most Anticipated Book by Esquire, Town & Country, and Electric LiteratureMichael Waters performs an Olympian act of storytelling,... Read more

    Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    Publication Date: 6/4/2024
    ISBN13: 9780374609818, 978-0374609818
    ISBN10: 0374609810

    Description

    Named a Most Anticipated Book by Esquire, Town & Country, and Electric Literature

    Michael Waters performs an Olympian act of storytelling, using the stories of these extraordinary athletes to explore in brilliant detail the struggle for understanding and equality. Jonathan Eig, author of King: A Life, winner of the Pulitzer Prize


    The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars.


    In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, also assigned female at birth, announced that he, too, was a man. Periodicals and radio programs across the world carried the news; both became global celebrities. A few decades later, they were all but forgotten. And in the wake of their transitions, what could have been a push toward equal

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