Attorney General Steve Marshall recently filed briefs in multiple courts to support President Donald Trump’s executive order that directs federal agencies to cease funding sex-change procedures for minors.
Marshall filed the briefs in the Fourth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals in response to preliminary injunctions entered by district courts in Washington and Maryland earlier this year in lawsuits filed by the State of Washington and plaintiffs represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Lambda Legal.
Trump’s executive order, which is titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation and signed in January, makes it the policy of the United States that it will not “fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called “transition” of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
Trump’s order threatens to withhold funds from medical providers and institutions that offer surgeries for minors.
“Even though President Trump is in office, common sense and constitutional principles are under constant assault by radical leftist groups like the ACLU, who are now asking federal courts to force taxpayers to fund sex-change procedures on children—an unconscionable demand that ignores overwhelming medical, legal, and moral concerns,” Marshall said.
“Thanks to the work of our team in Alabama, we’ve uncovered a disturbing, top-down effort to manipulate medical guidelines and eliminate age restrictions for these irreversible procedures. Even as global medical authorities urge caution, and public opinion on this issue is turning against it, the ACLU and its radical allies continue to rely on discredited standards to argue that these procedures are medically necessary," he added. "The evidence says otherwise. These harmful interventions have lasting consequences for vulnerable children.”
In defending the now-dismissed case against Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (VCAP), Marshall uncovered the spurious standards used by leading legal and medical organizations to promote gender altering procedures in minors. Marshall’s findings in defending VCAP, specifically the revelations that the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) guidelines were not as scientifically based as claimed by WPATH, have been used in defending multiple challenges from advocates using WPATH guidelines in their defense.
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