For Immediate Release:
December 4, 2025
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(Montgomery, Ala) – Alabama Attorney General Marshall joined a brief challenging a Colorado school district’s policy that uses a student’s self-professed gender identity rather than biological sex to room students together on field trips and sporting events. A federal district court dismissed a lawsuit brought by parents challenging the policy. Attorney General Marshall joined a 21-state brief in support of the parents’ appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
The brief argues that the district court’s order treats the Christian parents challenging the school’s policy as second-class citizens by not allowing their case to proceed to discovery even though plaintiffs in similar contexts have not had their cases dismissed. The coalition also argues that the school district’s policy is based on medical guidelines that have been thoroughly discredited by Alabama in previous litigation.
“The Constitution does not require parents to sit idly by as school districts overtaken by gender ideology force their daughters to share hotel rooms and locker rooms with boys,” stated Attorney General Marshall. “Nor does the Constitution require courts to accept the ideology posing as medical guidance by interest groups that want to offer sex-change procedures to children. Our children deserve better.”
Attorney General Marshall has been at the forefront of efforts to protect children from irreversible sex-change procedures, successfully defending Alabama’s law and leading briefs in support of other states’ laws. In January 2024, the Eleventh Circuit cleared the way for Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act to be enforced.
Joining Attorney General Marshall on the brief in the Colorado case are the attorneys general of Florida, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming, and the state legislature of Arizona.
To read the full brief, click here.
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