Texas AG sues NCAA to prevent biological men from competing in women's sports
DALLAS, TEXAS - JULY 11: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC held at the Hilton Anatole on July 11, 2021 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
AUSTIN - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for engaging in what he believes are false, deceptive, and misleading practices. He claims the association has been marketing sporting events as "women’s" competitions only to then provide consumers with mixed-sex competitions where biological males compete against biological females.
Paxton says in a news release that an important reason consumers choose to support women's sports is that only biological women will compete in the events.
He claims the NCAA violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by falsely marketing and selling competitions as "women's" sports, but providing a mixed-sex event.
The Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act protects consumers from businesses trying to mislead or trick them into purchasing goods or services that are not advertised.
Paxton says the NCAA further misleads consumers by failing to disclose which participants in its "women’s" competitions are biological males.
Attorney General Paxton requested the court grant a permanent injunction prohibiting the NCAA from allowing biological males to compete in women’s sporting events in Texas or involving Texas teams, or alternatively requiring the NCAA to stop marketing events as "women’s" when they are mixed sex competitions.
"The NCAA is intentionally and knowingly jeopardizing the safety and well-being of women by deceptively changing women’s competitions into co-ed competitions," said Attorney General Paxton. "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."