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.”