Tom Joyce of the NewBostonPost says banning males from competing in female sports is "long overdue."
"Credit to former Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker (R), who runs the NCAA, for taking action," he notes. "Pennsylvania [and] Virginia have enacted bans. They've said they will comply with the federal government, and I think more states ultimately will."
The new Department of Justice has also reversed the Biden-era position against Tennessee's "Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act," asserting that protecting children from irreversible mutilation does not violate equal protection guarantees.
Attorney General Pam Bondi is advising the United States Supreme Court that it will no longer be challenging Tennessee's law regarding gender mutilation and puberty blockers for minors.
"That puts a huge shift in this case," comments Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver.
According to Deputy U.S. Solicitor General Curtis Gannon, the views of the previous administration "no longer represent" the government's position, which means Biden's strategy of using the courts to push through his radical ideology will no longer be in effect.
"Thank God that day is over," Staver adds.
While Joyce thinks "it's great that President Donald Trump figured out a way to correct this problem using the force of the federal government," he says the states where these things happen most are the ones that are least likely to do anything about it.
Studies and recent polls show the majority of Americans do not think men belong in women's sports, but "the states haven't been doing the right thing."
"Maine, just like Massachusetts, has come out and said that nothing will change there," the reporter relays. A male who goes by the name Soren Stark-Chessa continues to compete against females in Nordic skiing.
Males continue to dominate girls' sports in New Hampshire as well, thanks to a preliminary injunction won in their lawsuit against the Trump administration.
In some other noncompliant states, however, male athletes are suddenly not competing.
Lucas "Lizzie" Bidwell, a top-ranked jumper who was expected to win the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) state championship for the high jump, did not compete last week.
No reason was given for his absence from the state championship, but Joyce says, "One has to wonder if the Trump executive order or pressure from the CIAC and pressure from the schools has anything to do with it."
As far as federal consequences, the Trump administration is investigating many athletic bodies in resistant states for violating Title IX, and Joyce thinks they risk losing their federal funding.
