For Immediate Release:
February 26, 2025
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Amanda Priest (334) 322-5694
William Califf (334) 604-3230
(Montgomery, Ala) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall led a 23-State amicus brief in support of President Trump’s Executive Order requiring federal agencies to stop funding sex-change procedures for minors. The Order was challenged by plaintiffs represented by the ACLU and Lambda Legal in federal court in Maryland.
“President Trump has brought common sense back to the White House, but organizations like the ACLU continue pressing their radical agenda by asking courts to order the federal government to continue funding sex-change procedures for minors,” said Attorney General Marshall. “Our team in Alabama uncovered a shocking conspiracy to manipulate medical guidelines and then use the misleading recommendations to justify abolishing age limits for sex change procedures. Even so, the ACLU and its allies continue to appeal to the debunked guidelines to assure courts that sex-change procedures for kids are medically necessary. They ignore the fact that every single systematic evidence review shows the opposite and paper over the Biden Administration’s remarkable political intrusion into the scientific process. Our brief is aimed at setting the record straight and reminding courts of the political and legal scandals driven by the left that have directly harmed our nation’s vulnerable children.”
Marshall was joined on the brief by the attorneys general of Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia, and the State Legislature of Arizona.
Attorney General Marshall has been a leading advocate in defending and protecting children from irreversible sex-change procedures. In successfully defending Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protect Act, he uncovered a political and legal scandal concerning how the leading medical standards of care were created explicitly to help groups like the ACLU win lawsuits and bring about political change regardless of the lack of scientific evidence supporting their recommendations. Marshall submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in October detailing these findings and has led numerous other amicus efforts in courts across the country. More information is available at https://www.alabamaag.gov/boe-v-marshall/.
You can read the full brief here.
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