Attorney General Marshall Leads Additional Brief Supporting Florida’s Reasonable Law Regulating Child Gender Procedures

For Immediate Release:
September 5, 2024

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(Montgomery, Ala.) - Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall led a 23-state brief in support of Florida's appeal to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Doe v. Surgeon General, State of Florida. Marshall urged the Eleventh Circuit to reverse the district court's injunction of Florida's law placing restrictions on sex-change procedures and prohibiting the administration of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to minors for the purpose of gender transition. The brief comes just two months after Marshall led a 22-state coalition asking the Court of Appeals to allow Florida to enforce its law while the appeal is heard. The court granted that request last week.

Over half of U.S. states and many European nations have imposed restrictions on sex-change procedures for minors, and Marshall has filed briefs across the country defending the restrictions against challenges from organizations like the ACLU and the Biden-Harris Department of Justice.

"When Alabama's law was challenged, we fought back, uncovering numerous documents from radical organizations and the Biden-Harris Administration showing that they knew all along that the evidence simply does not support performing sex-change procedures on minors," said Attorney General Marshall. "It is now clearer than ever that the key organizations supporting these procedures, including the federal government, have prioritized politics and ideology over the health of children. I'm grateful Alabama was able to uncover this medical and political scandal, and we will continue to defend children from these life-altering experiments."

Attorney General 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, the Eleventh Circuit cleared the way for Alabama's Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act to be enforced.

The Alabama-led brief included attorneys general from the states of: Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

The full brief is available here.

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