Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced yesterday that he was suing the NCAA for allowing trans athletes to compete in women’s sports. The argument he’s making is that by promoting this as women’s sports, the NCAA is misleading consumers who expect to see women, and only women, competing.
Paxton said the NCAA violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by deceiving fans who want to support sporting events that only include athletes whose female sex was assigned at birth.
Paxton also accused the NCAA of misleading consumers by not identifying which athletes are transgender, and of “jeopardizing the safety and wellbeing of women” by allowing transgender athletes to participate in its sporting events.
“Radical ‘gender theory’ has no place in college sports,” Paxton said in a news release Sunday.
Here’s a bit of the court filing which includes…
