by William Sullivan, American Thinker:
In the 2024 Paris Olympics, a controversy has arisen as a reportedly male competitor just won the women’s gold medal in boxing. And by the time you read this, there may be two biological males with gold medals in women’s boxing.
This wouldn’t be the first time that men have stolen deserving women’s medals, as it turns out. Many years ago, I happened across the story of Heinrich Ratjen, who competed in the women’s high jump in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and competed on behalf of Nazi Germany. As a 17-year-old, he placed fourth in those Olympic Games, but he managed to raise eyebrows after breaking the women’s world record for high jump at the European Athletics Championships in 1938. Afterward, on a train from Vienna to Cologne, he was outed when the conductor reported “a man dressed as a woman.”
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What made the story fascinating to me was a rumor that persisted for many years. Heinrich supposedly spoke out in his later years, admitting that the Nazis had forced him to compete as a woman named Dora. They did this for two reasons, according to the rumor. The first was to defeat all the other female Olympians and win more gold medals for the glory of the Reich, and the second was a conspiracy theory suggesting that Ratjen was “planted by the Nazi Party” to ensure that Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann wouldn’t make the German Olympic team. (The Nazis did conspire to prevent Bergmann from competing, and, when interviewed in 2009, Bergmann still insisted there was a Nazi plan to disguise Ratjen as a woman to compete in her place.)
The real story appears to have been quite different, as I later discovered while researching the Ratjen story as a possible parallel to the Will Thomas story a couple of years back.
Will, AKA Lia, Thomas was born a man and lived as a man, even competing in men’s NCAA swimming in his early college years, before pretending to be a woman named Lia in 2019 and robbing several deserving young women of their rightful medals and opportunities. Both he and the University of Pennsylvania pretended that he was a woman to get an edge against the female competition and to feign personal and institutional athletic excellence.
For obvious reasons, it reminded me of what I had once believed to be the Heinrich Ratjen story. What I discovered while revisiting the story, however, is that it was entirely unfair to Heinrich Ratjen to compare him to Will Thomas.
According to the Olympics website, Heinrich’s “gender was mixed from birth, and his parents raised him as a girl, although he had hermaphroditic sexual characteristics.” He was born Dora Ratjen, and he was raised as a girl. The Vintage News reports that his father, when pressed on the matter in 1938, said that he was in the kitchen during his birth, and that the midwife’s first report was that “it’s a boy!” Five minutes later, he was informed that “it is a girl, after all.”
The story of Dora/Heinrich Ratjen is a far more complicated one than the story of Will/Lia Thomas.
Will Thomas is a degenerate who lived and competed his entire life as a male, and later pretended to be a girl to win accolades and steal competitive glory from women who rightfully deserved it. Ratjen, on the other hand, had lived his entire life as a woman. The reason for the confusion about Heinrich’s sex at birth likely stems from a genetic anomaly resulting in a “piece of redundant skin,” “going backward from the underside of the male organ.” But after a life of having lived as a girl and competing as such, he reportedly showed “honest relief for finally being able to address the issue that had forced her to conceal her true identity.”
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