When Donald Trump signed the executive order on Title IX, he insisted the war on women’s sports was over. What he didn’t count on were states brazen enough to defy him. So far, a string of rebellious governors and athletic boards have spurned the White House’s guidance, leading to exactly what the president was trying to prevent: more girls cheated out of titles.

In Maine, where the state principals’ association and department of Education have both vowed to ignore the order, a biological boy has already made local girls pay for their decision — stealing first place in women’s pole vaulting at a Class B state championship this week. Because the trans-identifying boy was allowed to compete, his Greely High School girls’ track and field team won the title by a single point.

The injustice enraged local parents and leaders, who pointed out that two years ago, this same boy only managed to tie for 5th place in the men’s pole vault. Republican State Rep. Lauren Libby vented in a post that the decision by the Maine Principals’ Association “to continue allowing male athletes to compete against female athletes in school athletic competitions is outrageous.” Not only does their decision violate President Trump’s February 5 executive order, she pointed out, “but it jeopardizes the safety and privacy of female athletes, all while allowing male athletes to take medals, trophies, and podium spots away from women, effectively erasing them.”

In protest, at least one judge, Allen Cornwall, refused to participate in the meet. This biological male, he told reporters, “is going to be the … quote unquote girls conference champion. They’ll be the quote unquote girls state champion for the class B athlete. And these girls that have been competing for years, working towards this, are just being sidelined, and it’s really disgusting,” he argued.

Libby pleaded with the Trump administration to intervene, as it’s doing in California and Minnesota — two states where the Department of Education launched an official investigation into their refusal to abide by Title IX. As Craig Trainor, the acting assistant secretary for Civil Rights, insisted, “The Minnesota State High School League and the California Interscholastic Federation are free to engage in all the meaningless virtue-signaling that they want, but at the end of the day they must abide by federal law.”

And frankly, that federal law — Title IX — should have been enough to force every state’s compliance. The fact that President Trump had to issue an executive order on top of a 52-year-old federal statute just to get people’s attention is absurd. And yet, that’s the insane world we find ourselves after four years of Joe Biden’s trans extremism.

Now, because some politicians think they’re above the law, a high school girls’ team from Cornerstone Christian in California will have to face off against a team with a biological boy in the playoffs this weekend. Instead of forfeiting, as other schools have done, Cornerstone’s athletic director, Madison Alexander, said that the families have decided that the girls shouldn’t have to sacrifice their dreams on the altar of California’s woke gender ideology. “As long as the parents are on board with playing the game, we will support the girls’ hard work this season and play the game,” Alexander told Fox.

Turns out, the same boy played for San Francisco Waldorf’s girls’ volleyball team in the fall, forcing another private school, Stone Ridge Christian, to pull out of a playoff match in a courageous stand for their values. “At SRC,” they said in a statement, “we believe God’s Word is authoritative and infallible. It is Truth. And as Genesis makes clear, God wonderfully and immutable created each person as male or female. We do not believe sex is changeable and we do not intend to participate in events that send a different message. We also have a duty and responsibility to care for the health and safety of our athletes. So after consulting with our students, coaches and staff, we have made the difficult decision to forfeit Saturday’s game. Standing for Biblical truth means more than the outcome of a game.”

Months later, California still insists on steamrolling girls with their trans policies. And, as the new administration warns, it could cost them. Under Trump’s order, any institution that lets biological boys compete against girls stands to lose every penny of federal funding. In other words, the state as a whole would be staring down a $16.8 billion hole in its education budget. By USA Facts calculations, 13.9% of the state’s budget comes from Washington, much higher than the national average. Then again, if Governor Gavin Newsom (D) can spend $50 million to fight the Trump administration on immigration, maybe he has money to burn.

To FRC’s Meg Kilgannon, “It beggars belief that we are still failing to protect women and girls in sports from competing against men and boys who think they are women. If accommodations are going to be made for these men," she told The Washington Stand, "they cannot be made at the expense of women and girls — or common sense.”

But despite the public outcry, overwhelming polling, and flood of state laws, the leftist media is still determined to give a platform to “victims” like CeCe Telfer. The runner, who has the dubious distinction of being the first man to cheat his way to a woman’s NCAA title six years ago, insisted on CNN he’s a “Black trans woman” whose been “de-humanize[d]” by the 80% of Americans who think he should compete against his own sex.

“I’ve done nothing wrong but try to be a good, contributing member of society,” he claimed, adding that he would sit down with Trump himself and have a “human conversation.” “I need some explanation as to why you want to completely eradicate us from society when we’ve done nothing wrong,” he insisted. (This from a man who vowed to “take all the names, all the records, and everything” from women in the 2024 indoor season.)

As for the recent movement to strip men of the titles they stole, Tefler balked. “That’s not how history works,” he argued. “You can’t take back history.”

That irked All-American swimmer Riley Gianes, who fired back, “He* was born male, looks & speaks like a man, runs like a man, and is smashing women’s records. He’s* not a victim, he’s* a cheat.” The only people who say, “You can’t take away the records & titles that I stole from deserving women,” she posted, are “mediocre” men who have a history of “trampling women.”

As an incensed Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) posted when he saw the pole vaulting story, “This is BEYOND ridiculous. It’s been nearly two weeks since [the president’s] EO getting men out of women’s sports.” If Americans want this to end, then it’s simple, the legendary coach said: “Time to vote on my bill and get men out of women’s sports at EVERY level.”