Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has announced a significant legal victory in the case of Boe v. Marshall. The case, which challenged the state's Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, has resulted in a win for the state after plaintiffs dropped their suit. This Act prohibits experimental sex-change procedures for minors.
Marshall stated, “Three years ago, multiple sets of plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, SPLC, and some of the nation’s largest law firms, filed suit against Alabama to challenge our law protecting vulnerable kids from life-altering sex-change procedures. We fought back. We defeated a preliminary injunction and conducted court-ordered discovery into the so-called ‘standards of care’ that these groups claimed were evidence-based. What we found was devastating to the plaintiffs’ challenge: a medical, legal, and political scandal that will be studied for decades.”
The discovery process revealed that key medical organizations had reportedly misled parents and promoted treatments with little reliable evidence as settled science. Marshall commented, “We uncovered the truth. We exposed the scandal. We won. Alabama led the way, and now all families are safer for it.”
Alabama's Act makes it a felony for doctors to provide puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone treatments, or surgeries to minors for gender transition purposes, aiming to prevent children from making irreversible decisions prematurely. Originally enacted in April 2022, the law faced a preliminary injunction, which was vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in August 2023.
Marshall has also contributed to efforts supporting similar laws in other states. He has filed legal briefs, including a noteworthy one for Tennessee’s law, which is awaiting a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
Marshall concluded, “This victory is not just for Alabama. This is a generational win for children, for families, and for reality itself. Alabama refused to be bullied. Now the rest of the country is seeing the truth. We are proud to lead that effort.”