Texas attorney general sues NCAA over trans athletes in women’s sports
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the NCAA, accusing the association of misleading fans by allowing transgender athletes to participate in women’s events.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the NCAA, accusing the college athletic association of misleading fans by allowing transgender athletes to participate in women’s events.
The lawsuit argues that permitting athletes who were assigned male at birth to play in women’s sports confuses and tricks consumers who attend sporting events that the NCAA has advertised as being restricted to female athletes.
“Texas consumers are legally entitled to spend their hard-earned dollars on the competitions that matter to them, without being misled. This Court should enjoin the NCAA from its misleading and unlawful conduct to protect Texas consumers from the NCAA’s false, deceptive, and misleading practices,” reads the lawsuit, which was filed in state district court in Lubbock.
In a news release Sunday announcing the suit, Paxton said he wanted the court to prohibit the NCAA from allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports in Texas or to stop the NCAA from marketing events as “women’s” when transgender athletes are competing.
“The NCAA is intentionally and knowingly jeopardizing the safety and wellbeing of women by deceptively changing women’s competitions into co-ed competitions,” he said. “When people watch a women’s volleyball game, for example, they expect to see women playing against other women — not biological males pretending to be something they are not. Radical ‘gender theory’ has no place in college sports.”
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