A Tennessee law enacted in March of 2023 bans healthcare providers in the state from providing sex change procedures in the form of hormone therapy or puberty blockers to children. Since being put in place, the legislation has enjoyed support from elected officials in Alabama including Attorney General Steve Marshall.

On Tuesday, in response to the Biden-Harris Administration’s recent move challenging the law’s constitutionality, Marshall filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting SB1.

“When the Biden-Harris administration sued Alabama and demanded that the state allow sex-change procedures on children, we fought back,” the Attorney General said. “Through court-ordered discovery, Alabama exposed a truly shocking medical, legal, and political scandal. Internal documents from the federal government and radical advocacy groups showed that the Biden-Harris administration, ‘social justice lawyers,’ and self-appointed medical ‘experts’ manipulated medical guidelines for the purpose of convincing courts to abolish age limits for sterilizing chemical treatments and surgeries for kids.”

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Alabama passed a similar bill to Tennessee’s in 2022 that is also now being challenged.

“It is no wonder the Department of Justice fought so hard to shut down discovery in Alabama’s case. The administration secretly helped craft these purportedly ‘evidence-based’ guidelines and knew there was precious little evidence behind them, but still told courts to defer to them,” Marshall said in a statement. “We ask the Supreme Court to reject the administration’s cynical argument that the Constitution now mandates States like Alabama and Tennessee use those guidelines to harm children.”

The administration has told the Supreme Court that “overwhelming evidence” supports the use of giving gender dysphoric kids “puberty blockers and hormones,” but before it made that claim, officials at HHS acknowledged that “there is little/no evidence about children and adolescents.”

The brief outlines the Biden-Harris administration’s conspiracy with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and other advocacy organizations to influence guideline documents meant to be used by physicians caring for minors suffering from gender dysphoria. It also details how senior officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services pressured WPATH to remove age minimums for chemical and surgical interventions and how WPATH relied on advice from “social justice lawyers” to evade evidence-based review for its guidelines.

Additionally, Marshall’s brief argues that the ongoing political and medical scandal makes clear the dangers of allowing courts to transfer authority from legislatures to self-appointed experts like WPATH.

Austen Shipley is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @ShipleyAusten