Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on Sunday, accusing the college organization of deceptive marketing practices in its inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports.
Paxton said in a press release: NCAA violated the Texas Trade Practices Act, “designed to protect consumers from companies that attempt to mislead or entice them to purchase goods or services that are not as advertised.”
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NCAA President Charlie Baker (Michelle Pemberton/IndyStar/USA TODAY NETWORK/File)
He accused the NCAA of “engaging in false, deceptive and deceptive practices by marketing sporting events as ‘women’s’ competitions, only to then offer consumers mixed-gender competitions pitting biological men against biological women.”
“The NCAA is intentionally and knowingly endangering the safety and well-being of women by fraudulently converting women’s competitions into co-ed competitions,” Paxton said in a statement. “For example, when people watch a women’s volleyball game, they expect to see women playing against other women – not to see biological men pretending to be something they are not. Radical ‘gender theory’ has no place in college sports.”
SJSU trans player Blaire Fleming, left (Thien-An Truong/San Jose State Athletics/File)
Paxton said he is seeking a court’s issuance of a preliminary injunction to prohibit the NCAA from allowing transgender athletes in women’s sports in Texas or “including Texas teams,” or, alternatively, requiring the NCAA to no longer allow events as “women’s.” “to market when they are actually mixed sex competitions,” the press release states.
The NCAA did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
NCAA President Charlie Baker faced criticism on Capitol Hill last week over transgender participation in sports. He was also asked about it during a performance on “The Pat McAfee Show.”
When McAfee asked Baker what parents of daughters should think about trans athletes in women’s sports and the NCAA’s record in this area, Baker downplayed the implications.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (Reuters/Brian Snyder/File)
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“There are 510,000 college athletes in the NCAA, there are fewer than 10 transgender athletes, so it’s a small community to begin with,” Baker said.
Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.
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