Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on Sunday, accusing the collegiate organization of deceptive marketing practices by including transgender athletes in women’s sports.
Paxton said in a news release that the NCAA violated the Texas Trade Practices Act “which exists to protect consumers from companies that attempt to deceive or mislead them into purchasing goods or services that are not as advertised.”
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NCAA President Charlie Baker (Michelle Pemberton/IndyStar/USA TODAY NETWORK/File)
It accused the NCAA of “engaging in false, misleading and deceptive practices by marketing sporting events as ‘women’s’ competitions only to then offer consumers co-ed competitions where biological men compete against biological women.”
“The NCAA is intentionally and knowingly jeopardizing the safety and well-being 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 men pretending to be something they are not. Radical ‘gender theory’ has no place in college sports.”
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SJSU trans player Blaire Fleming, left (Thien-An Truong/San Jose State Athletics/File)
Paxton said he was seeking to have a court grant a permanent injunction to prohibit the NCAA from allowing transgender athletes in women’s sports in Texas or “involving Texas teams, or alternatively requiring the NCAA to stop marketing events as “women’s” when in actually are mixed. sexual competitions,” the press release said.
The NCAA did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Pak Gazette Digital.
NCAA President Charlie Baker was questioned about transgender participation in sports while at the Capitol last week. He was also asked about it during an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show.”
When McAfee asked Baker how her daughters’ parents should feel about trans athletes in women’s sports and the NCAA’s record on the matter, Baker downplayed the impact.
Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas (Reuters/Brian Snyder/File)
“There are 510,000 college athletes playing in the NCAA, there are less than 10 transgender athletes, so it’s a small community to begin with,” Baker said.
