Foekje Dillema
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Foekje Dillema was a Dutch track and field athlete. She competed in sprinting where she was a rival of Fanny Blankers-Koen. When she refused a sex verification test at age 24, she was banned from comp
Foekje Dillema in 1949
Dillema (second from the right) at the start of the 200 metres in Amsterdam on 18 June 1950.
Dillema during a sprint in Groningen on 12 July 1950.
Sculpture in honor of Dillema by Ids Willemsma from 2014.
Intersex
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Intersex people are those born with any of several sex characteristics, including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Hum
Foekje Dillema
…she was banned from competition by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1950. After her death, it was determined that she was an intersex person. Foekje Dillema was born on 18 September 1926 in Burum, Friesland in the Netherlands…
Participants at the third International Intersex Forum, Malta, in December 2013
Model Hanne Gaby Odiele photographed by Ed Kavishe for Fashionwirepress. In 2017, Odiele disclosed having the intersex trait androgen insensitivity syndrome.
The standard treatment in cases of androgen insensitivity syndrome and other intersex conditions was to lie to patients. This extract is from a book published in 1963.
Hermaphroditus in a wall painting from Herculaneum (first half of the 1st century AD)