Americans are increasingly fed up with men who pretend to be women muscling into women’s sports. Caving to mounting pressure, the University of Pennsylvania last week annulled the winning results of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas and restored records and titles to biologically female swimmers. As David Sypher Jr. notes in The Spectator World, this not only vindicates female swimmer Riley Gaines but scores a huge win for women’s sports and overall rationality.
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Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
