Zdenek Koubek – Before
After
Kuobek was showered with praises for setting a number of world records as a Czechoslovakian track star. This changed after he found came under scrutiny of the public eye when newspapers made suggestive comments on his unusually masculine tendencies. In 1934, Koubek retired from the world of sports aged 22 years after participating in the Women’s World Games. He later pursued gender reassignment surgery and consequently changed his name in 1936. After that, he married and settled down in Prague at the end of World War II.