Texas AG sues NCAA to prevent biological males from participating in women’s sports

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DALLAS, TEXAS – JULY 11: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the CPAC Conservative Political Action Conference held at the Anatole Hilton on July 11, 2021 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for engaging in what he considers to be false, misleading and deceptive practices. He claims that the association markets sporting events as “female” competitions and then offers consumers mixed competitions where biological men compete against biological women.

Paxton says in a press release that a significant reason consumers choose to support women’s sports is that only biological females will participate in these events.

It claims the NCAA violated Texas’ Deceptive Trade Practices Act by falsely marketing and selling the competitions as “women’s” sports but holding a co-ed event.

The Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act protects consumers from businesses that attempt to mislead them or trick them into purchasing goods or services that are not advertised.

Paxton claims the NCAA further misleads consumers by failing to disclose which participants in its “women’s” competitions are biological males.

Attorney General Paxton asked the court grant a permanent injunction prohibiting the NCAA from allowing biological males to participate in women’s sporting events in Texas or involving Texas teams, or require the NCAA to stop marketing events as “women’s” when These are mixed competitions.

“The NCAA intentionally and knowingly endangers the safety and well-being of women by deceptively transforming women’s competitions into co-ed competitions,” said Attorney General Paxton. “When people watch a women’s volleyball match, for example, they expect to see women playing against other women, not biological men pretending to be something they are not. The ‘radical theory like that’ has no place in college sports.”