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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Sunday that the National Collegiate Athletic Association is misleading college sports fans by allowing transgender women to participate in events advertised as women’s competition. announced that it has filed a lawsuit against the association.
Paxton said the NCAA violated the Texas False Trade Practices Act by deceiving fans who wanted to support sporting events attended only by athletes assigned the female sex at birth.
Paxton also argued that the NCAA misleads consumers by not disclosing which athletes are transgender and that by allowing transgender athletes to participate in sporting events it “endangers the safety and well-being of women.” “I’m exposing myself to this,” he said.
“There is no radical ‘gender theory’ in college sports,” Paxton said in a news release Sunday.
Paxton asked the court to limit transgender athletes’ participation in NCAA competitions held in Texas and in NCAA competitions involving Texas teams, or to classify events involving transgender women as women’s sports. I’m asking you to stop doing what you do.
In a statement, the NCAA did not address the lawsuit’s allegations but said it remains committed to supporting women’s sports.
“The association and its members continue to advance Title IX, make unprecedented investments in women’s sports, and ensure fair competition in all NCAA championships,” NCAA communications director Michelle Bruttlag Hossick said in a statement. ” he said.
Paxton’s lawsuit comes on the heels of NCAA President Charlie Baker being grilled by lawmakers over the inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this week. Ta. Baker later said he knows of “less than 10” transgender athletes out of more than 500,000 athletes enrolled at NCAA schools.
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Many Republicans have enthusiastically taken up the fight against transgender women’s participation in sports as one of their top priorities in recent years, with many candidates highlighting their opposition in political ads aired in the run-up to the November election. I am doing it.
In response to the attention to the issue, some Democratic candidates have declared that they will not support transgender athletes in women’s sports. President-elect Donald Trump’s victory has led to growing calls for Democrats to distance themselves from socially progressive issues such as transgender rights.
As President Joe Biden prepares to leave office, his administration has withdrawn a proposed rule that would have prevented schools from outright banning transgender athletes under Title IX of the Civil Rights Act. The departmental restrictions were accepted. U.S. Department of Education officials said the decision came after receiving tens of thousands of comments “with a wide range of opinions” about the proposed policy change and several legal challenges. said.
Last year, Texas approved a law banning transgender athletes from playing on college teams that match their gender identity.
Reporting in the Rio Grande Valley is supported in part by Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc.
