There was a short-story written by Kurt Vonnegut in 1961 called "Harrison Bergeron" ...
In the novel, several Constitutional amendments mandate total equality among Americans ...
Exceptionally strong persons must wear weights to slow them down.
Exceptionally smart persons wear headsets that bombard them with distracting noises so they cannot concentrate.
Exceptionally beautiful people must wear masks.
Not to follow these "handicaps" results in prison (or worse).
The eponymous hero is so exceptional that he has to wear all those handicaps so that he is described as "more junk yard than man".
Bergeron leads a very short-lived revolution where he breaks into a live-performance of a ballet (where the dancers must wear weights and braces) to removes his handicaps , along with those of one dancer and the musicians. He is ultimately killed by The Handicapper General on live TV and the other revolutionaries submit to re-fitting their handicaps.