Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is once against fighting for parents who want to protect their children from policies that promote radical transgenderism.
Marshall, who is also a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2026, joined a brief challenging a Colorado school district’s policy that uses a student’s self-professed gender identity rather than biological sex to room students together on field trips and sporting events.
The case stems from a lawsuit by three Colorado Families against the Jefferson County School System. A federal district court dismissed a lawsuit brought by parents challenging the policy.
The 21-state brief is in support of the parents’ appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth 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,” Marshall said. “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 not allowing their case to proceed to discovery even though plaintiffs in similar contexts have not had their cases dismissed.
“The district court did not cite any medical research for its finding that the Policy, as applied to Appellants, is rationally related to protecting the psychological wellbeing of gender dysphoric students. Rather, the court relied on a pair of sister circuit opinion,” the brief states. “However, those cases were decided on an obsolete ‘body of knowledge.’”
The coalition also argues that the school district’s policy is based on medical guidelines that have been thoroughly discredited by Alabama in previous litigation.
Marshall has been at the forefront of efforts to protect children from irreversible sex-change procedures, successfully defending Alabama’s law and leading briefs in support of other states’ laws. In January 2024, the Eleventh Circuit cleared the way for Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act to be enforced.
Joining Attorney General Marshall on the brief in the Colorado case are the attorneys general of Florida, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming, and the state legislature of Arizona.
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee
