A group of women college athletes affected by transgender inclusion will testify in a legal battle between the NCAA and the state of Texas Tuesday. 

After the NCAA changed its gender eligibility policy to prevent biological males from competing in women’s sports to comply with President Donald Trump’s Feb. 5 executive order addressing the issue, many pro-women activists spoke out with concerns the new policy doesn’t go far enough to keep trans athletes out.

In late February, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the NCAA for its recent revised policy, demanding the governing body begin mandatory sex screening. 

The lawsuit’s first hearing is Tuesday and will include testimony from former San Jose State University volleyball player Brooke Slusser and her mother, Kim Slusser, former North Carolina State University Kylee Alons and former University of Kentucky Swimmer Kaitlynn Wheeler.

Those athletes are already involved in another lawsuit, led by Riley Gaines and the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS), against the NCAA for its past gender policy that allowed trans athletes to compete as women, citing their own experiences with trans inclusion. 

Slusser is the most recent of the group to enter the battle against trans inclusion in women’s sports after joining the Gaines lawsuit in September over her experience with transgender teammate Blaire Fleming. Slusser has alleged SJSU did not reveal Fleming’s birth sex while they shared changing and sleeping areas. 

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Alons, a 31-time All-American and two-time NCAA champion, and Wheeler shared a locker room and pool with former University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA championships. 

Now, the three athletes will look to share their experiences in court as they try to bring mandatory gender testing to the NCAA and prevent future women athletes from going through similar experiences. 

Paxton’s lawsuit has reflected many of the complaints by critics that the current policy is too lenient and could allow trans athletes to compete in women’s sports with an amended birth certificate. 

In the U.S., 44 states do allow birth certificates to be altered to change a person’s birth sex. The only states that do not allow this are Florida, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Montana. There are 14 states that allow sex on a birth certificate to be changed without any medical documentation required, including California, New York, Massachusetts and Michigan. 

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“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 states. Additionally, Paxton argues the NCAA allows “ample opportunity for biological men to alter their birth records and participate in women’s sports.”

Paxton filed a lawsuit against the NCAA in December over its previous policy. In that suit, Paxton 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 well-being 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.”

The NCAA provided a statement to Fox News Digital addressing the criticisms and insisting that amended birth certificates will not be accepted. 

“The policy is clear that there are no waivers available, and student-athletes assigned male at birth may not compete on a women’s team with amended birth certificates or other forms of ID,” the statement said. “Male practice players have been a staple in college sports for decades, particularly in women’s basketball and the Association will continue to account for that in the policy.”

These specifics are not outlined on the official NCAA policy page, and it makes no specific references to birth certificate, ID amendments or women’s scholarships going to trans athletes.

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The threat of tornadoes moved east into the Mississippi Valley and the south on Saturday, just a day after a massive storm’s winds damaged buildings, started dust storms that caused fatal crashes and fanned more than 100 wildfires in several central states.

Multiple tornadoes were reported in Missouri on Friday. Winds of up to 80 mph were forecast from the Canadian border to Texas, threatening blizzard conditions in colder northern areas and wildfires in warmer and drier areas to the south.

Three people were killed Friday in car crashes during a dust storm in Amarillo County, Texas, according to state Department of Public Safety Sgt. Cindy Barkley. One car pileup involved an estimated 38 cars.

“It’s the worst I’ve ever seen,” Barkley said. “We couldn’t tell that they were all together until the dust kind of settled.”

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Officials ordered evacuations in parts of Oklahoma amid more than 130 fires reported across the state. Officials said winds were so strong that several tractor-trailers were toppled.

The severe storm threat was forecast to continue into the weekend with a high chance of tornadoes and damaging winds Saturday in Mississippi and Alabama. Heavy rain could lead to flash flooding in some parts of the East Coast on Sunday.

The National Weather Service said at least five tornadoes were reported in Missouri on Friday, including one in the Saint Louis area. Officials in St. Louis County declared a state of emergency.

Several buildings were damaged in the storm, including a strip mall in Rolla, Missouri, as a tornado was reported in the area Friday afternoon.

The Storm Prediction Center said fast-moving storms could result in twisters and hail as large as baseballs, although the greatest threat would be straight-line winds near or exceeding hurricane force, with possible gusts of 100 mph.

Tornadoes were expected Saturday in parts of the central Gulf Coast and Deep South into the Tennessee Valley, the National Weather Service said.

The Storm Prediction Center said parts of Mississippi, including Jackson and Hattiesburg, and parts of Alabama, including Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, would be at a high risk. Severe storms and tornadoes were also possible across eastern Louisiana, western Georgia, central Tennessee and the western Florida Panhandle.

Mark Nelson, of Wisconsin, waits with his tractor-trailer after it overturned during high winds and a possible tornado on Interstate 44 westbound at Villa Ridge, Missouri, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP)

Wildfires in the Southern Plains threatened to spread rapidly in the face of warm, dry weather and strong winds.

Evacuations were ordered Friday for some areas in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and New Mexico.

A fire in Roberts County, Texas, quickly grew from less than a square mile to an estimated 32.8 square miles, the Texas A&M University Forest Service said on X. Crews managed to stop the blaze from advancing by Friday evening.

About 60 miles to the south, another fire grew to about 3.9 square miles before crews stopped its advance in the afternoon.

The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management activated its emergency operations center in response to several fast-moving fires that led to evacuations in the western town of Leedey.

The National Weather Service said extremely dangerous fires were seen northeast of Oklahoma City, near Stillwater. Officials issued mandatory evacuation orders that included homes, hotels and a Walmart.

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A wildfire burns at night on Friday, March 14, 2025, south of Langston, Oklahoma. (AP)

Officials urged people in some areas of Camden County in central Missouri to evacuate because of wildfires. The State Highway Patrol warned that the fires were nearing homes and businesses.

Roughly 120 miles of Interstate 70 in western Kansas were temporarily shut down over blowing dust and limited visibility.

High winds also knocked out power to more than 216,000 homes and businesses in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri.

The National Weather Service issued blizzard warnings for parts of western Minnesota and eastern South Dakota starting early Saturday. Snow accumulations of three to six inches were expected, and up to a foot is possible.

Winds gusting to 60 mph were predicted to cause whiteout conditions.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.