Attorney General Alan Wilson fights to protect parental rights from woke gender ideology

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has joined a multi-state amicus brief to protect parental rights from woke gender ideology.

“Parents are not required to surrender to radical gender ideology,” Attorney General Wilson stated. “Children who flee to a different state should be returned to their parents safely, not given life-altering gender transition treatments.”

The amicus brief supports a challenge to a Washington state law that allows runaway children to receive intervention without parental knowledge or consent. According to the law, children’s shelters do not have to notify parents of the child’s presence at the shelter. And if the parents are notified, there is no requirement to gain their consent for treatment, which includes “gender-affirming care.”

“As a parent, my children’s safety has been a main priority since they were born,” Attorney General Wilson said. “South Carolina’s families deserve to have their rights respected by every state; especially when their child could be in danger.”

Attorney General Wilson also joined a letter from 24 states to the Department of Health and Human Services supporting two proposed rules regarding sex-change procedures.

The two proposed rules would restrict federal funding of sex-change operations performed on children.

“The radical leftist regime wants to use our children as lab experiments,” Attorney General Wilson stated. “We will not stand by while children are subjected to irreversible harm. And we certainly stand against any use of public money to do so.”

Attorney General Alan Wilson joined the amicus brief along with Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Attorney General Wilson joined the multi-state letter with Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

You can read the brief here.

You can read the letter here.