Attorney General Alan Wilson defends children from irreversible harms

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) –Attorney General Alan Wilson joined a 22-state friend-of-the-court brief to the North Dakota Supreme Court in support of a North Dakota law that bans sex-change procedures for minors.

North Dakota joined many other states in determining that sex-change procedures should not be available to children. The states’ brief argues that the people’s representatives in North Dakota are entitled to regulate medicine, rather than politically motivated organizations like the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).

“Banning sex-change procedures for children is common-sense policy,” Attorney General Wilson stated. “Protecting children from severe and permanent harm should be the chief aim of every state in the country.”

Attorney General Wilson has successfully defended a similar law in South Carolina, along with joining a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Tennessee’s law that eventually led to the United States v. Skrmetti decision from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Joining Attorney General Wilson in the Alabama-led brief are the states of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

You can read the brief here.