Texas AG sues NCAA over trans inclusion in women's sports

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., responds to the NCAA’s policy allowing transgender female athletes to compete in women’s sports during an appearance on ‘The Faulkner Focus.’ 

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on Sunday and accused the collegiate organization of deceptive marketing practices for including transgender athletes in women’s sports.

Paxton said in a news release the NCAA violated the Texas Trade Practices Act "which exists to protect consumers from businesses attempting to mislead or trick them into purchasing 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 misleading practices by marketing sporting events as ‘women’s’ competitions only to then provide consumers with mixed sex competitions where biological males compete against biological females."

"The NCAA is intentionally and knowingly jeopardizing the safety and wellbeing of women by deceptively changing women’s competitions into co-ed competitions," Paxton said in a statement. "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."

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SJSU trans player Blaire Fleming, left (Thien-An Truong/San Jose State Athletics/File)

Paxton said he was seeking a court to grant a permanent injunction to prohibit the NCAA from allowing transgender athletes in women’s