Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues NCAA Over Allegedly Misleading Transgender Policy

NCAA’s practice of allowing men who identify as women to play in women’s sports violates the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, Paxton argued.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues NCAA Over Allegedly Misleading Transgender Policy
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 23, 2024. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) on Dec. 22 for allegedly misleading sportgoers into believing they were watching a competition between players of one gender.

“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 on Sunday. “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.”