Texas attorney general asks court to require NCAA to begin gender testing as part of new transgender policy

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Source: Chicago Tribune/AP

UPDATED: February 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM CST


LUBBOCK, Texas — The Republican attorney general in Texas wants the NCAA to take its transgender policy a step further and require gender testing for athletes who compete in women’s sports. AG Ken Paxon filed a lawsuit in December in state district court and on Thursday added a filing that seeks a court order requiring gender screening for athletes and an injunction intended to prevent the NCAA from “falsely and deceptively claiming that only biological women may participate in female-specific competitions.”

Earlier this month, the NCAA changed its participation policy for transgender athletes, limiting competition in women’s sports to athletes who were assigned female at birth. The move came a day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to ban transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ sports.

Paxton doesn’t think the NCAA move goes far enough, saying the NCAA has no mechanism for screening the sex of athletes. “In practice, the NCAA’s lack of sex-screening has allowed (and will continue to allow) biological men to surreptitiously participate in ‘women’s’ sports categories,” the lawsuit claims. Over the past year, transgender athletes have become a target of critics who say their participation in women’s sports is unfair and a potential safety risk.

The topic became a major talking point in Trump’s reelection campaign even though there is believed to be a very small number of transgender athletes; NCAA President Charlie Baker in December said he knew of only 10 transgender athletes out of more than 500,000 across the NCAA.

Read more: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/20/texas-ag-asks-court-to-require-ncaa-to-begin-gender-testing-as-part-of-new-transgender-policy/

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I guess now this bunch of sickos will have a ball feeling up on women "to check". Bunch of fucking perverts.

[rickford66]

2. Using chromosone tests might be a good thing

They will find some female assignments at birth are actually male or a mixture. I welcome these tests which will give trans people a lot of ammo.

[TommyT139]

3. I disagree

First off it will be a colossal waste of money.

More importantly, once that info is determined, the athlete loses all control over it. And if test results come as a shock, what counseling will be made available? Will the athlete now have a preexisting condition, just in time for the likely changes in health insurance law?

Come to think of it, the majority of the group that is "caught" won't be trans people -- it will be intersex people. Are they included under the laws?

[rickford66]

4. " it will be intersex people"

That was my point. There aren't just two sexes and physical bodies don't always match chromosomes. Politicians will receive a science lesson.

[Miguelito Loveless]

6. And you think they will actully LEARN from the results

My, you are optimistic.

[Initech]

5. Oh god, the republicans are absolutely out of their damn minds.

[Lancero]

7. Well, looks like those genital inspection posters in DFW ended up being prophetic.

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/electronic-genital-verification-prank-posted-in-dfw-airport-21720007