Butterflies and Wheels » Discussing all the things

CNN continues the campaign of cheating and insulting women.
The 26-year-old champion’s path from her humble roots in Algeria has been defined by determination and the courage to defy cultural expectations, including that a girl should not fight.
Now, Khelif has emerged as an unwitting lightning rod in the culture wars shaping elite sports and likely to influence new International Olympic Committee (IOC) policies on women’s eligibility. Those rules could establish whether to reintroduce mandatory...

Alex Massie on the determination to put women in danger for the sake of male games.
Voters should know that if they vote for the SNP (or the Green Party), they really are voting for men convicted of some of the most heinous crimes to be housed in the female prison estate simply because these men have decided they are in fact women themselves...

Why is the SNP still fighting for a trans killer to be in a female jail?
In November 2013, the Scottish courts dealt with an “utterly depraved” murder. Eight months earlier, Robert Shankland, a “caring and vulnerable” 46-year-old in poor health, had been lured to a property in the town of Glenrothes, Fife....

If you look at it the right way it’s true.
At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Donald Trump spoke from prepared remarks as he discussed the persecution of Mariam Ibrahim. Ibrahim was unjustly imprisoned and sentenced to death in Sudan in 2014, in a case centered on her Christian...