San Jose State women’s volleyball star Brooke Slusser warned the NCAA after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the organization over the inclusion of transgender people in women’s sports.
Paxton filed the lawsuit on Sunday, accusing the organization of deceptive marketing practices by allowing transgender women to compete against biological women. 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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San Jose State Spartans player Brooke Slusser has a lawsuit filed against the team. (Courtesy of San Jose State Athletics)
Slusser, who was part of a lawsuit against his own school and the NCAA for allowing a transgender woman to be on the Spartans’ roster this season, posted about Paxton’s lawsuit.
“Hey NCAA, in case you haven’t noticed yet, this fight is going to keep getting harder for you until you make a change!” Slusser wrote in X.
Slusser and other plaintiffs had asked a judge to grant an injunction barring Blaire Fleming from competing in the Mountain West Conference women’s volleyball tournament last month, but were denied.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit on Sunday. (Dylan Hollingsworth/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
San Jose State reached the finals of the tournament but lost to Colorado State.
Paxton accused the NCAA of “engaging in false, misleading and deceptive practices by marketing sporting events as ‘women’s’ competitions only to then offer consumers coed 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.”
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 fact They are mixed.” sexual competencies,” the press release said.
NCAA president Charlie Baker speaks during a news conference on Aug. 13, 2024, at NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis. (Michelle Pemberton/IndyStar/USA Today Network)
The NCAA issued a statement to Pak Gazette Digital later Sunday.
“College sports are the primary arena for women’s sports in the United States, and while the NCAA does not comment on pending litigation, the Association and its members will continue to promote Title IX, make unprecedented investments in women’s sports, and ensure fair competition. in all NCAA championships,” the organization said.
