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.
Inhuman for Criminals, the Luck of the Draw for You and Me
The EU may have banished the “‘inhuman,’ ‘degrading,’ and ‘irreversible’” death penalty for criminals, writes Frank Haviland in The European Conservative – but its member states’ soft-on-crime, easy-on-illegal-immigrants policies are making violent death an increasingly common fate for innocent Europeans. In a world gripped by barbarian forces, writes Haviland, it’s time for Great Britain to hold a national referendum on restoring an older form of justice.
