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FIRST ON FOX: Nearly two dozen states — led by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey — are warning that surgical gender transitions lack sufficient medical evidence to prove their safety in an amicus brief filed in the Supreme Court Monday.
Surgical sex-change procedures have sparked intense debate, particularly regarding minors. While many states are enacting restrictions and prosecuting doctors who perform these surgeries, liberal states are pushing to maintain broad access to these treatments.
“Every state has the right to protect our children from irreversible surgeries,” Bailey said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “As the first state to successfully defend at the trial court a legal challenge to a law protecting children from gender mutilation, Missouri is now taking our litigation strategy to other states.”
He added, “all children are worth defending.”
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Intersex-inclusive Pride Progress flag alongside a Transgender Pride flag on 10th June 2024 in London, United Kingdom. (Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
The amicus brief supports North Carolina and West Virginia’s federal cases dealing with “radical transgender ideology.”
In April, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit sided with transgender plaintiffs in lawsuits against North Carolina and West Virginia, mandating both states to provide transgender sex-change procedures and treatments. The court argued in its ruling that excluding these procedures breached the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and constituted discrimination based on sex and gender identity.
“The science surrounding gender transition interventions is new and unsettled,” the amicus brief states. “The World Health Organization classified transgender identity as a mental health disorder until just five years ago. These recent, enormous changes make the Fourth Circuit’s core presumption—that these…
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