After Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the NCAA for transgender inclusion in women’s sports, San Jose State women’s volleyball player Brooke Slusser issued a warning to the organization. Accusing the group of misleading marketing tactics for permitting transgender women to compete against biological females, Paxton filed the complaint on Sunday. The Texas Trade Practices Act, “which exists to protect customers from firms attempting to deceive or defraud them into purchasing products or services that are not as promised,” was broken by the NCAA, according to a news release.
Slusser, who participated in a lawsuit against the NCAA and her own school for permitting a transgender woman to play for the Spartans this season, shared information on Paxton’s complaint. “Hey NCAA, in case you haven’t figured it out yet, this battle will only get more difficult for you until you change!” On X, Slusser wrote. Last month, Slusser and other plaintiffs requested an injunction from a judge to stop Blaire Fleming from participating in the Mountain West Conference women’s volleyball championship, but their request was turned down.
Texas AG Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit on Sunday. (Dylan Hollingsworth/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Despite reaching the tournament finals, San Jose State was defeated by Colorado State. Paxton charged the NCAA with “marketing athletic events as ‘women’s’ competitions only to provide customers with mixed sex competitions where biological males compete against biological females, so engaging in false, deceptive, and misleading activities.” Paxton issued a statement saying, “The NCAA is purposefully and willfully endangering women’s safety and well-being by deceitfully converting women’s competitions into co-ed competitions.” For instance, people expect to see women competing against other women, not biological guys posing as someone they are not, when they watch a women’s volleyball match. College athletics cannot accommodate radical “gender theory.”
According to the news release, Paxton was asking a judge to issue a permanent injunction that would forbid the NCAA from permitting transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports in Texas or “involving Texas teams, or alternatively requiring the NCAA to stop marketing events as ‘women’s’ when in fact they are mixed sex competitions.”