Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall wants to work with the Trump administration to stop any federal funding of sex-change procedures on children.

Marshall, who is also a candidate for the U.S. Senate, led a coalition of 24 States in filing a letter with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to cease paying for these radical transgender practices.

“Medicaid and Medicare should never have been allowed to use taxpayer dollars to fund radical and dangerous sex-change procedures for children,” Marshall said. “We support the Trump administration’s proposal to reverse course. We know the dangers of these procedures firsthand. Through years of litigation defending Alabama’s law, we uncovered a political and medical scandal involving the leading medical guidelines that recommend using sterilizing hormones and surgeries to ‘treat’ children suffering from gender dysphoria.”

The letter, sent to Secretary Kennedy, issues direct comments on two proposed rules that would restrict federal funding from continuing to subsidize sex-change procedures for minors under Medicare and Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

“The guidelines were built on ideology and politics, not science, and have led to untold harm to children and their parents,” Marshall continued. “Children deserve better, and the first step in helping them is to stop funding the harm.”

In the Alabama-led letter, the coalition discusses evidence uncovered in litigation regarding the “Standards of Care 8” (SOC-8) published by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).

The letter extensively discusses evidence showing that WPATH used SOC-8 to advance political and legal goals, changed its treatment recommendations based on politics, departed from well-accepted best practices for creating medical guidelines, hindered the publication of systematic evidence reviews appraising the safety and efficacy of sex-change procedures for minors, and even went so far as deeming castration “medically necessary” for males who self-identify as “eunuchs.”

Marshall has been a strong advocate for the rights of parents on this issue. Last year, he led amicus briefs filed in the Fourth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals that defended President Donald Trump’s executive order banning federal agencies from funding sex-change procedures for minors.

He also led the effort in defending Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act in the courts.

Marshall is joined on the letter by the attorneys general of Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

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 Twitter @Yaffee