ABKF, on behalf of the Independent Women’s Forum and the Center for Christian Virtue, filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court of Ohio in support of Ohio’s SAFE Act, which bans doctors from “treating” gender dysphoria by subjecting minors to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change surgeries.  The Tenth District Court of Appeals, in the decision being appealed, held that the Ohio Constitution barred the legislature from banning these procedures because WPATH and the Endocrine Society endorse the procedures’ use.  The brief explains that the Tenth District erred.  For one thing, “the self-proclaimed experts to whom the Tenth District deferred are activists whose ‘lodestar is ideology, not science.'”  “More fundamentally, Ohio’s ‘sovereign prerogative does not bow to ‘major medical organizations’”; the “views of self-proclaimed experts do not ‘shed light on the meaning of the Constitution.’”

You can read the brief at this link.

The ABKF attorneys who filed the brief are Benjamin M. Flowers, James S. Kresge, and Andrew D. McCartney