Steve Marshall will attend U.S. Supreme Court arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti

December 3, 2024 - WASHINGTON D.C.- On Wednesday December 4, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall will attend oral argument at the United States Supreme Court in U.S. v. Skrmetti. In this case the Biden Harris Administration is using its' Department of Justice to challenge the state of Tennessee's law imposing age restrictions on sex-change procedures.

Attorney General Marshall has filed an amicus brief with the Court in which he claimed that the medical community has conspired to advance the extreme transgender agenda in guidelines that the United States relies on to attack Tennessee's law. Marshall claims that these guidelines were manipulated to hide the fact that little to no evidence supports giving sterilizing drugs and surgeries to children.

The conservative legal group, Liberty Counsel, has also filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Skrmetti.

https://www.lc.org/newsroom/details/101524-scotus-should-uphold-state-laws-preventing-child-medical-mutilation

The laws in Tennessee and Kentucky protect gender-confused children from potentially dangerous puberty blockers, hormones, and irreversible medically mutilating surgeries. Liberty Counsel stated that the High Court's decision could "reverberate beyond this case" affecting how challenges to laws involving talk therapy and counseling are decided.

Liberty Counsel has represented thousands of licensed counselors who diagnose and treat gender confusion with talk therapy. The radical LGBTQ+ community and the doctors who profit off of pushing these radical sex change treatments are attempting to silence medical professionals who do not subscribe to their radical agenda.

Liberty Counsel recommends that the High Court decide this case by "making a clear distinction between talk therapy-which is pure speech protected by the First Amendment-and invasive medical interventions involving dangerous drugs and experimental surgery-which is most often appropriately categorized as conduct that the state may regulate."

In their brief, Liberty Counsel explains how this case raises "critical questions" as to how the courts should scrutinize cases involving medical treatments for gender-confused minors in light of these dangerous drugs, experimental surgery, and available mental health counseling.

Liberty Counsel states that dangerous medical interventions such as puberty blockers, hormones, and mutilating surgeries are forms of "conduct" that fall within a state's traditional authority and legitimate interest to regulate for the protection of public health and safety. These procedures also harm minors in which the state has an interest in preventing. By contrast, counseling and talk therapy is "speech" that helps a person "align unwanted sexual attractions, behaviors, and identities, or gender dysphoria with religious or moral values."

"This Court must preserve the essential distinction between laws that regulate conduct and those that restrict speech," stated Liberty Counsel. "The Court should make a clear distinction when determining the appropriate level of judicial scrutiny in the context of laws that regulate invasive and experimental medical interventions involving dangerous drugs and life-altering surgeries-which is most often appropriately considered conduct-from counseling or talk therapy-which is speech."

26 states, including Alabama, now have laws banning these experimental and often irreversible procedures on minors.

The Biden-Harris Justice Department intervened in the case in 2023 after several sets of liberal parents sued the states to obtain the right to mutilate their children. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the mutilation bans in these two states are constitutional.

Biden's AG Merrick Garland argues that the bans are sex-based discrimination and violate the Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment.

The Sixth Circuit rejected that argument and ruled that bans on these "experimental" interventions for both sexes "lack[ed] any of the hallmarks of sex discrimination." The Sixth Circuit also noted the Equal Protection Clause does not prohibit a state from banning gender interventions on minors if the bans are reasonably and rationally related to a legitimate state interest, such as protecting children from the health risks of "experimental" drugs and procedures.

Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, "There is no fundamental right to subject children to dangerous drugs and irreversible, experimental surgeries."

Steve Marshall was appointed to be Alabama's Attorney General by then Governor Robert Bentley (R) in 2017. He was subsequently elected to his own term in 2018 and re-elected in 2018. He is term limited from running again for AG in 2026.

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