Attorney General Steve Marshall, who is running to fill the seat of U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn), highlighted some of the successes of his years as AG in Alabama.
While talking to Apryl Marie Fogel on FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show" on Thursday, Marshall said he was happy to take on the fight to protect children from radical transgender ideology and procedures.
"The beauty of being the Attorney General in Alabama, because the people of our state give you the ability to fight the battles that need to be fought and look, putting testosterone in little girls and puberty blockers in boys and God forbid those that want to use scalpels on kids to somehow or another change their body parts is completely wrong," Marshall said. "And despite the fact that we had, you know, woke medical organizations talking about standards of care that would have said, 'This is what we need to do,' despite the fact that we had left lawyers who were litigating these cases, contacting doctors to say, 'Change the language of your standard of care because you need to help our political agenda,' and the worst maybe of all was the Biden administration, you know, reaching out to these international medical organizations saying, 'Hey, you need to take off the age restrictions on surgeries for kids because you're hurting our political efforts to help the trans community.'"
Marshall led the state in fighting back, exposing what he called a legal, ethical and medical crisis.
"The fact that we were able to get our message out there leveraged what Tennessee was doing in a very similar case that just recently the Supreme Court decided that said states have a vested interest in being able to protect kids, that what we're doing, in fact, is completely in line with the authority of the state to be able to protect children," he said.
With multiple briefings filed this week, Marshall defended the Trump administration in moving to defund blue states that allow transgender procedures for children. He said this is an example of how Alabama protects children in the state, the nation and around the world.
Marshall also discussed Trump's support of National Shooting Sports Month. He said that having a president who supports the Second Amendment is important for people in Alabama who grew up experiencing recreational shooting.
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