Texas AG joins fight against transgender females playing women's sports

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined the fight to protect women’s sports amid the rise of "unfair and dangerous competition from biological men."

An official press release by Paxton states that he is joining an amicus brief that is led by Tennessee and was filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which is based in New York City. 

The amicus brief "highlights the protections for biological women under Title IX," which is the foundation behind the brief. 

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on July 11, 2021, in Dallas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

"For decades, Title IX has helped create opportunities for girls to participate in sports by prohibiting educational programs from discriminating on the basis of sex," the release read. 

"Despite recent attempts to radically alter the definition of ‘sex,’ Title IX has long operated under the biological reality that there are two separate sexes: male and female. Given this fact, allowing subjective 'gender identity' to trump biological sex would render much of Title IX unworkable."

Title IX has been a hot topic in the sports world due to the Biden administration's plan to release new rules to the civil rights law that was enacted in 1972. The new rules would bar states from banning transgender students from competing against the gender they identify as.

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"At the time of Title IX’s enactment, the public understood that allowing biological boys to