Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is continuing the fight against allowing “gender-affirming” surgeries for minors.
Marshall is leading a 24-state brief supporting Ohio’s law protecting children from experimental treatments. The brief urged the Ohio Supreme Court to review a lower court decision that enjoined enforcement of Ohio’s law based on its conclusion that the law conflicted with purported standards of care promulgated by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
“Even after Alabama uncovered the devastating court-ordered discovery that dismantled the thinly veiled medical guidelines, the Ohio courts still cherrypicked amicus briefs filed in another case to find that WPATH’s guidelines are the prevailing standards of care that Ohio somehow became powerless to disagree with,” Marshall said.
“The court should have instead deferred to the government’s regulation protecting vulnerable children who deserve so much better than WPATH’s faulty ‘standards.’”
— Attorney General Steve Marshall (@AGSteveMarshall) May 19, 2025
In the brief, Marshall argued that the state court of appeals got things backward by deferring to WPATH rather than the state legislature on matters of medical regulation. According to Marshall, it is the role of government to regulate private interest groups and medical providers, not the other way around.
Marshall has fought this fight before in the now-dismissed case, Boe v. Marshall. The case led to the discovery that key medical organizations like WPATH misled parents, promoted unproven treatments as settled science, and ignored growing international concern over the use of sex-change procedures to treat gender dysphoria in minors.
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Marshall has not only successfully defended Alabama’s statute but also led nationally by filing key legal briefs in support of similar laws in other states, highlighting the evidence uncovered during its own discovery.
The brief was filed on behalf of 24 states: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and West Virginia.
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
