Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the NCAA for allowing transgender athletes to participate in women’s events alleging that permitting athletes who were identified as male at birth to play in women’s sports is “deceptive” and “misleading.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the NCAA, accusing the college athletic association of misleading fans by allowing transgender athletes to participate in women’s events. https://t.co/DQmqL63yx2
— NBC Out (@NBCOUT) December 23, 2024
“Texas consumers are legally entitled to spend their hard-earned dollars on the competitions that matter to them, without being misled,” reads the lawsuit. “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.” From NBC News:
In a press release Sunday announcing the suit, Paxton said 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,” Paxton said in a statement.
“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.”
Since 2010, the NCAA has required trans athletes who were assigned male at birth to complete at least one year of testosterone suppression treatment before they can be eligible to compete on a women’s team. A recent study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that transgender women who completed more than one year of hormone replacement therapy performed worse than cisgender women in tests measuring lower-body strength and lung functioning. Last week, NCAA President Charlie Baker told a Senate panel there are fewer than 10 transgender athletes he is aware of among the over 500,000 NCAA athletes who currently compete in college sports. His statement put a damper on an issue Republicans have tried to pump up into a widespread problem going on across the nation.
Ken Paxton sues NCAA over transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports. www.texastribune.org/2024/12/22/t…
— Texas Tribune (@texastribune.org) December 22, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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