Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Sunday he is suing the National Collegiate Athletic Association because of transgender athletes competing in women's sports.
Paxton said the NCAA is engaging in false, deceptive, and misleading practices by marketing sporting events as "women's" competitions only to then provide consumers with mixed sex competitions where "biological males compete against biological females."
The NCAA is violating the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, Paxton said, saying people choose to watch women's sports to see biological women compete.
Paxton is asking a 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 requiring the NCAA to stop marketing events as "women's" when in fact they are mixed sex competitions.
"The NCAA is intentionally and knowingly jeopardizing the safety and wellbeing of women by deceptively changing women's competitions into co-ed competitions," said Paxton. "When people watch a women's volleyball game, for example, they expect to see women playing against other women."
In a statement, the NCAA said they would continue to support women's sports.
"The Association and its members will continue to promote Title IX, make unprecedented investments in women's sports and ensure fair competition in all NCAA championships," Michelle Brutlag Hosick, NCAA communications director said in a statement.
NCAA President Charlie Baker said during a recent Senate hearing there are less than 10 transgender athletes among the more than 500,000 athletes in NCAA schools.
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