Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), accusing it of misleading practices by marketing sporting events as exclusive to women while allowing biological males to compete. The legal action claims that this practice violates the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, which is designed to protect consumers from deceptive business practices.
Paxton argues that consumers support women's sports under the belief that only biological women will participate. He contends that by advertising these competitions as "women's" events but then hosting mixed-sex contests, the NCAA misleads its audience. Furthermore, Paxton states that the NCAA fails to inform consumers about which participants in "women's" competitions are biological males.
The lawsuit seeks a permanent injunction preventing the NCAA from permitting biological males to compete in women's sports within Texas or involving Texas teams. Alternatively, it demands that the NCAA stop labeling such events as "women's" if they include mixed-sex participants.
"The NCAA is intentionally and knowingly jeopardizing the safety and wellbeing of women by deceptively changing women’s competitions into co-ed competitions," said Attorney General Paxton. "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."