Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the NCAA, the Collegiate Athletics Association, for misleading the spectators by allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s events.
The lawsuit said that the events confuses and tricks consumers by permitting those assigned male at birth to play in women’s sports 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,” the lawsuit, filed in state district court in Lubbock, reads.
Paxton, in a news release on Sunday, said that 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.”
The statement referred to the San Jose State University women’s volleyball team, boycotted this year, after opponents reported them for having a transgender player.
A federal court, last month, blocked the team member from playing in the Mountain West Conference tournament.