Down here in Orlando the art museum is running a “Women of Vision” show of works by photographers that the curators identify as “women.” How do single-gender museum shows, typically planned a year or more in advance, work in a transgender age? What if one of photographers identified as a “woman” during the planning stage comes out as a “man” just prior to the public opening? Does the show get retitled? Some works get removed? A note added that the photographer is believed to have identified as a woman at the time of the exposure?
[Museums also like to run single-race shows (except that explicitly featuring artists for being “white” or “white male” is uncommon). Does that still make sense in the Rachel Dolezal age?]
Wikipedia took your advice. In their article on the women’s 400 meter world record, they noted that Caitlyn Jenner’s 47.51 in the 1976 Olympic decathlon was faster than Marita Koch’s 47.60 from 1985. I don’t think this is unfair to Koch, who also had a very high level of male hormones, but I wonder who the fastest unenhanced woman was at this distance.
Some claim pre-op transsexual women will be allowed to compete with legacy women in this year’s Olympic Games. If so, that would shatter many records.