Transgender surgeries and treatments for minors have been a “failed experiment” in Europe and shouldn’t be occurring in America, according to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.
Marshall is currently defending Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (VCAP) in federal court. The 2022 law prohibits doctors in Alabama from performing transgender operations or prescribing cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers to individuals under 19.
U.S. District Judge Liles Burke stayed a trial on Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (VCAP) on Tuesday after the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear a similar case involving the state of Tennessee last week.
On Wednesday's episode of WVNN's "The Yaffee Program," Marshall said he planned to continue further exposing the “true fraud” around transgender surgeries for minors.
“Judge Burke yesterday issued an order that says he’s not going to hear what we have filed, the summary judgment motions, make a decision on our law at this point because last week the Supreme Court wants to take up this question through a case arising out of Tennessee and understand the basis for the court’s decision,” Marshall said. “The good thing is it really doesn’t have a direct impact on our law because it is in place. It is enforceable. What we’re hoping and what we look forward to doing is even further exposing the true fraud that is taking place by these activists some in the liberal medical community and this administration trying to impact patient care in a way that is making kids experiments and it has been a failed experiment in Europe and it doesn’t need to be occurring in this country.”
Documents unsealed last week in the lawsuit against Alabama's transgender surgery ban for minors revealed the Biden administration lobbied against including minimum age requirements in the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) standards of care for surgeries. The Biden administration told national reporters they now oppose transgender surgeries for minors after the documents in the lawsuit were released last week.
“I would encourage those parents to be able to read some of those records that we produce,” Marshall said. “How are they going to feel knowing that ACLU lawyers are dictating to medical agencies how they develop standards of care so they can help their case in preserving transgender rights. That has nothing to do with taking care of kids that suffer from gender dysphoria. What my hope is is that this concept of informed consent that individuals that are subject to treatment have full understanding of what they’re doing, potential consequences, and why. What I can tell you is the records we have reveal that not only does WPATH, this international organization that’s advancing this radical agenda through its standard of care, not only are they acknowledging internally that they don’t even know that they have the ability to explain to parents and kids what the consequences (are) of this. I think parents need to understand that there are other options that they might not be informed (about) that have the ability outside of using medicine off-label to try to deal with the concerns that they’re facing in their own home.”
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