Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall criticized those who are challenging state bans on transgender surgeries and medication for minors at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Oral arguments were heard by the court on a Tennessee law recently enacted that sets age restrictions for sex-change procedures. Attorneys for the Biden Administration and the Department of Justice have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rule the new law unconstitutional.
Marshall was at the Supreme Court to support Tennessee’s Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, who argued in favor of the ban.
“Alabama is proud to help defend Tennessee’s commonsense law protecting kids from powerful, often irreversible, chemical and surgical ‘sex-change’ procedures,” said Attorney General Marshall said in a statement after oral arguments took place. “Kids suffering from gender dysphoria deserve so much better than hormones and surgeries. Yet as we uncovered through court-ordered discovery while defending Alabama’s similar law, health officials in the outgoing administration teamed up with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) to issue purported ‘Standards of Care’ that were intentionally crafted to mislead courts into believing, contrary to every systematic evidence review that has been conducted on the topic, that kids need these treatments.”
Marshall said there’s no real evidence to support the need to have minors go through the process of “gender affirming care.”
“As we saw today, the Court seems rightly skeptical of such cynical antics by the ACLU and the Biden administration,” he continued. “The scientific evidence is not on the challengers’ side, and neither is the law. Treating a young boy’s endocrine disorder with testosterone is simply not the same thing as using that drug to treat a young girl’s mental health issue by making her appear as a boy. One treatment preserves fertility; the other treatment destroys it.”
Marshall also said there’s no legal basis for challenging Tennessee’s law.
“And recognizing that obvious medical reality does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. Try as they might, neither the ACLU nor the Department of Justice could explain away that fundamental truth. I look forward to the high court’s decision.”
The attorney general filed an amicus brief in October with the Supreme Court that
revealed how the medical guidelines the United States relies on to attack Tennessee’s law were manipulated to hide the fact that little to no evidence supports giving sterilizing drugs and surgeries to minors. A decision by the Supreme Court is expected by next summer.
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