WOMAN ATHLETE
TO CHANGE HER SEX Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 2. The 1 Daily Telegraph’s Prague correspondent says Miss Zdenka Koubkowa, aged 24, the women’s world track champion, will ' shortly undergo an operation to change her into a man. It will bo recalled that she refused to be examined in 1934 by a medical board in London, which was testifying to the effects of athletics on women’s constitutions. She resigned in the _ spring from the Czech Women’s Athletic Federation, and did not participate in events in 1935 for an unrevealed reason.'
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Evening Star, Issue 22203, 4 December 1935, Page 11
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92WOMAN ATHLETE Evening Star, Issue 22203, 4 December 1935, Page 11
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