Alabama Claims Primacy Over Parents on Treating Transgender Kids

The state of Alabama asked the Eleventh Circuit to overturn a partial injunction against its recently enacted law criminalizing gender-affirming medical care for children, saying the state, not parents, has the authority to regulate the treatments.

Echoing the language of the recent US Supreme Court case overturning Roe v. Wade and the high court’s ruling restricting the states’ ability to ban concealed weapons, Alabama said “no one—adult or child—has a right to transitioning treatments that is deeply rooted in our Nation’s history and tradition,” in a brief filed Monday in the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

“The ...