Trump Signed the Orders. The Private Sector Ignored Them. That Is the Real Problem.
You would think a presidential signature ends the debate. Trump restored sex-based definitions across federal agencies. He corrected Biden’s gender policies. He told the government to acknowledge male and female as biological realities. For many Americans who skim the headlines, this sounded like victory. The problem is that victory only applies to the part of America the federal government controls. The rest of the country can ignore Trump’s executive orders and continue pretending biology is a suggestion.
Jammie Booker, a man pretending to be a woman, just won the title of “World’s Strongest Woman” at the World’s Strongest Woman competition in Arlington, Texas.
Andrea Thompson, the female runner-up, had her title stolen by a man.
KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS pic.twitter.com/MYXCmOSEEc
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 25, 2025
The Part Most Americans Don’t See
Regular people are not tracking which institutions depend on federal money and which ones do not. They hear “Trump banned men from women’s sports” and assume the entire playing field changed. It did not. The executive orders force compliance in public schools, government agencies, and entities tied to federal funding. They do not touch private sports leagues, private schools, private hospitals, major nonprofits, corporate HR departments, entertainment companies, or professional athletic associations. Those institutions can continue pushing gender ideology without consequence.
Where “Inclusion” Becomes a Loophole
The Minnesota women’s hockey story is the perfect example. Reduxx reported on a team that has four men playing in a women’s league, and the headline reads like a violation of Trump’s orders. It is not. The Minnesota Whitecaps play in a professional women’s league that operates as a private entity, which means they are free to ignore the federal government. They do not fall under Title IX or depend on federal dollars, and nothing requires them to acknowledge biological reality. The league can roster as many men as it wants and call it “inclusion.”
In October 2021, USA Hockey incorporated a new policy allowing anyone to participate “according to the gender with which the athlete identifies.” The only requirement for a male to play in the women’s league is to self-identify and register as female with USA Hockey, the national governing body for the sport.
The policy instructs coaches and officials to “educate” themselves about “diversity” and to use the preferred names and pronouns of male players who identify as women. It also directs leaders to protect the identities of “transgender” players and to decline to disclose to other team members whether an individual is male or female. Perhaps most troubling, the policy also encourages staff to actively “confront” behaviors from other players that may be perceived as “discriminatory.” – Reduxx
The Left Built Its Stronghold Where Washington Can’t Touch It
If you are an ordinary person who assumes federal authority carries weight, this seems impossible. How can a president order the government to recognize biological sex and yet a women’s hockey league can openly reject it? The answer is simple. The executive orders do not reach them. Private institutions are the stronghold of gender ideology. They have spent years shifting the movement out of spaces the government can regulate. So a federal correction does not affect them. That is the part the public does not see.
It creates a two-track system. Public institutions must comply, while private institutions do not. The left has already captured the private sphere, where culture grows, and norms are shaped. It is also where narratives are written. The federal government can clean up its own house, but the culture that shapes daily life lies beyond its reach. Trump’s executive orders restored reality to the government. They did not restore reality to the culture, and those are two different projects.
This Is Where Conservatives Keep Missing the Point
The split will confuse people, but it should also be a wake-up call. Public institutions will follow Trump’s orders, yet private institutions will keep rewriting the rules. Women’s sports in schools will move back to biological sex, while professional leagues keep men on the roster and pretend it is progress. That split is not ideological. It is legal, and compliance depends entirely on who takes federal money and who does not.
This is the part the right has to understand. Restoring federal policy does not end gender activism, and the left built its strongest positions inside private institutions because those spaces are shielded from federal authority. Corporations, medical groups, private schools, and national nonprofits do not answer to the executive branch. They answer to boards, donors, and activist networks that insist biological reality is offensive. They will not stop simply because a president signed a correction.
This Isn’t Over. Not Even Close.
Which means the work is not finished. The orders fix the government, but the culture is still moving in the opposite direction. If conservatives want real change, they cannot stop at policy. They must confront the private systems that keep pushing this ideology into daily life. The paperwork is handled, and the cultural fight is still in front of us.
The New Jersey spa ruling proves the point more clearly than sports. A Korean women’s spa sued to protect its female-only nude areas, and a judge ordered them to admit males anyway. It is a ruling that defies logic, biology, and the entire concept of women’s privacy. Anyone with common sense can see this violates every expectation of safety and dignity. It is also permitted because the spa operates in a private commercial space and falls under state civil rights law. A federal executive order cannot override a judge who insists that gender identity grants access to women’s nude facilities. That is the reality we are up against. The government can restore definitions, yet the private sphere backed by activist courts can still force women to surrender their boundaries. How can we win when judges are ordering this nonsense?
The Left Will Keep Replacing Sex With Gender
This is where your straight shot comes in. Gender ideology will shrink in public institutions and expand in private ones. The red states will enforce Trump’s orders aggressively, and the blue states will resist through bureaucratic slow walking and local policy games. The professional leagues, tech companies, major medical groups, and national nonprofits will ignore the orders entirely. They will insist the federal definition of sex does not apply to them, and they will continue rewriting language so that gender replaces sex in every policy and every rule. That switch is deliberate. It erases women’s boundaries and makes biological reality sound outdated.
A False Sense of Victory Is the Most Dangerous Advantage
The real problem comes when people think the issue is already solved. That gives private groups even more room to push ideas the public would never agree to. When everyone assumes the orders fixed everything, the groups that are not required to follow them move faster and face less pushback. This is how the culture keeps drifting. People think the fight is over while the other side keeps going.
This is the part that deserves a warning. The executive branch can correct policy. It cannot correct culture. The left captured culture years ago. Trump is correcting the federal side of the equation. He is not correcting the world of private leagues and corporate activism. That world will continue redefining womanhood, dissolving sex-based protections, and pressuring everyone to accept a reality that contradicts their own eyes. The orders create clarity in government. They do not create clarity in the private sphere. That is where the next fight will happen.
The most disturbing part is that this is already happening. Entire institutions have quietly replaced biological sex with whatever ideology pleases them, and nothing in federal policy stops it. They claim it is their right, and the law often agrees. We do not want federal power running every corner of American life, yet that same restraint is now used to erase the truths that protect women. This should unsettle people. We are not arguing about tax codes or zoning rules. We are arguing about whether biological reality still matters, and the fact that this is even a debate shows how deep the problem has become.
Trump fixed the part of America he controls. The part he does not control is still rewriting the rules. That is the reality the public needs to understand.
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