Dozens of states urge federal appeals court to unblock child sex change ban

In a brief filed Wednesday and obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and 22 other state attorneys general urged the eleventh circuit court of appeals to reverse a lower court ruling that overturned Florida’s pediatric sex-change ban. The amici noted that until recently, “providing sex-change treatments to minors was practically unthinkable,” and recognized that many states and European countries have already created age-based restrictions on sex-change medical interventions.

“Maybe history is repeating itself in grim fashion, and we’ll one day wonder how this medical scandal spread so far before being reined in,” the brief states. “In any event, because ‘nothing rules out th[e] possibility’ that Florida acted to protect kids from sterilizing treatments, the district court grievously erred.”