Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the NCAA, accusing the college athletic association of misleading fans by allowing transgender athletes to participate in women’s events.
The lawsuit argues that permitting athletes who were assigned male at birth to play in women’s sports confuses and tricks consumers who attend sporting events that the NCAA has advertised as being restricted to female athletes.
“Texas consumers are legally entitled to spend their hard-earned dollars on the competitions that matter to them, without being misled. 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,” reads the lawsuit, which was filed in state district court in Lubbock.
In a news 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.