WDNews, Montgomery, Alabama
In support of President Trump’s executive order to halt government financing for sex-change procedures on minors, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is spearheading a multistate legal campaign.
Marshall submitted amicus briefs to the Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Fourth Circuits. The motions follow previous preliminary injunctions from federal courts in Maryland and Washington. The State of Washington and a number of plaintiffs, who were represented by the ACLU and Lambda Legal, filed lawsuits contesting the order, which is the basis for those legal actions.
“Even though President Trump is in office, radical leftist organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union are constantly attacking common sense and constitutional principles. They are now requesting that federal courts compel taxpayers to pay for sex-change procedures on children, which is an unconscionable demand that disregards overwhelming medical, legal, and moral concerns,” Marshall said in a statement.
Marshall claimed that his office had discovered what he described as a troubling, top-down attempt to change medical regulations and remove the age limit for these permanent operations.
The ACLU and its extreme friends continue to use debunked criteria to claim that these treatments are medically necessary, he added, despite the fact that international medical authorities advise caution and public opinion is shifting against them. The evidence contradicts this. For children who are at risk, these detrimental treatments have long-term effects.
He continued, “Our brief corrects the record once more and calls on the courts to deny these risky, politically driven attempts.”
Marshall has advocated vocally for the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act in Alabama. Marshall’s office claims that the legal discovery process revealed weaknesses in the medical standards being used to support such operations, despite the fact that the law was challenged in court and ultimately overturned. Marshall led similar efforts in other areas after submitting findings to the U.S. Supreme Court in October.
Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming were among the 25 states whose attorneys general joined the Alabama-led brief.
Complete case and brief details are available at https://www.alabamaag.gov/boe-v-marshall/.
