In September 2024, three Colorado families sued the Jefferson County School System over a controversial district policy allowing biological males, who identify as women, to room with biological females on school field trips and sporting events. A federal district court later dismissed the lawsuit.
On Thursday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that he has signed onto a brief along with 21 other attorneys general challenging the policy in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.
“The Constitution does not require parents to sit idly by as school districts overtaken by gender ideology force their daughters to share hotel rooms and locker rooms with boys,” said Marshall. “Nor does the Constitution require courts to accept the ideology posing as medical guidance by interest groups that want to offer sex-change procedures to children. Our children deserve better.”
The brief argues that the district court’s order treats the Christian parents challenging the school’s policy as second-class citizens by denying their case discovery, even though plaintiffs in similar contexts have not had their cases dismissed.
The coalition also argues that the school district’s policy is based on medical guidelines that Alabama has thoroughly discredited in previous litigation.
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