Here we are again, asking the question that shouldn’t even need to be asked in a country built on law, order, and common sense: Do rules matter anymore?
President Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this year to protect the integrity of women’s sports, removing biological males from female competitions — a move welcomed by millions of Americans tired of watching women pushed aside in the name of radical ideology. The NCAA was expected to fall in line, and for a brief moment, it looked like common sense might finally be making a comeback.
But now we’ve got Ithaca College, a Division III school, putting a biological male — Juniper Gattone, formerly known as Tyler Gattone — on the women’s rowing team, racing in the 3V event at the Cayuga Duals. That’s right. A man on a women’s team, again.
And Ithaca’s response? Basically: “Oops.”
According to the school, there was a “misunderstanding” about whether the 3V race constituted an official NCAA event — as if that excuses the decision to put a biological male in competition against women. If this is compliance, it’s compliance in name only. What it really looks like is another thinly veiled act of defiance — the kind we’ve come to expect from activist administrators who think they know better than the rule of law.
🚨Men STILL competing in NCAA women’s sports!
Ithaca College women’s rowing defies President’s executive order by allowing sophomore male rower, Juniper (Tyler) Gattone, to compete in the women’s Cayuga Duals over the weekend 🧵 pic.twitter.com/bKNZB3Susw
— ICONS (@icons_women) March 31, 2025
Let’s get one thing straight: Trump’s executive order wasn’t optional. It was a legal directive issued by the president of the United States to restore fairness, safety, and reality in women’s athletics. And yet, here we are, watching institutions dodge accountability by playing games with definitions and technicalities.
This isn’t just about one rowing race. It’s about whether the people running our schools, our athletic associations, and yes, even our government, still respect the boundaries of law — or if they believe themselves immune to it, hiding behind committees and policy jargon.
And for what? To appease a loud minority that believes feelings override biology, and that men should be allowed to claim women’s spaces, titles, and scholarships — because saying “no” might hurt someone’s feelings?
This isn’t compassion. It’s cowardice, wrapped in policy-speak.
The reality is, law and order have become negotiable in far too many circles. Rules are obeyed only when they align with the woke narrative, and ignored the moment they pose an inconvenience to the agenda. Trump saw this coming, and he acted. But as this Ithaca episode proves, laws don’t enforce themselves — and if our institutions won’t follow them, they need to be held accountable.
