Fast Takes: A win for girls sports, the UNs recycled lies on Israel and other commentary

To see “why the U.S.Supreme Court’s June 30 decision in two cases preserving fairness in girls’ and women’s sports is so important, look to California,” argues USA Today’s Ingrid Jacques.

There, a transgender athlete “won two track and field state championships in late May — no surprise, given the inherent advantages biological men have over women in athletics.” Trans athletes challenged laws requiring they compete under their birth sex in two states, Idaho and West Virginia; the Supreme Court found that states are free to pass such laws and thus protect girls from the unfairness and safety risks that come with having to compete against the opposite sex.“Biological reality matters, and the Supreme Court acknowledged that by allowing states to do what’s right.”“Many Americans,” even those “who only casually follow politics,” are wondering, “Just how radical exactly is today’s Democrat Party?” observes David Deavel at AMAC, and the “legacy” of Minnesota Gov.

Tim Walz “may provide an answer.” A new film about Walz called “Minnesota Mao” reveals his “affection and admiration” for the Chinese “totalitarian dictatorship,” and his purchase of “dozens and dozens” of the Little Red Book.Many of Walz’s trips to China were funded “in large part” by Beijing, and as governor he promoted his own “Year Zero” approach to history, renaming lakes and removing statues.

The film leaves a clear impression that Minnesota’s “alternately absurd and frightening governor” foreshadowed the “radicalism of the young DSA politicians” now ascendent in Democratic politics.The latest UN-associated report “accusing Israel of genocide” is riddled with “lazy” recycled conclusions that have been “predetermined and based to a large degree” on earlier lies about Israel, warns the Commentary’s Seth Mandel.The report claims Israel was “deliberately targeting” Palestinian children and committing “genoci...