Texas AG Paxton sues NCAA over transgender athletes in women’s sports [Video]

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on Sunday in a bid to prevent transgender women from competing in women’s college athletics.

The lawsuit alleges the NCAA has been engaging in false, deceptive and misleading practices by marketing sporting events as “women’s” competitions. Paxton argues it is deception to bill an event as a women’s competition but allow it to be a “mixed-sex competition” where “biological males compete against biological females.”

Paxton is asking the court to grant a permanent injunction prohibiting the NCAA from allowing biological males to compete in women’s sporting events in Texas and involving Texas teams or to stop the NCAA from marketing it as women’s sports.

“Men competing in women’s sports is inherently unfair and unsafe due to their physiological advantages,” Paxton said in the …