Attorney General Ken Paxton has enlisted the State of Texas in a multi-state amicus brief supportive of Alabama's Vulnerable Child Protection Act, according to a report from Austin NBC affiliate KXAN.
The Republican-sponsored legislation seeks to impose a ban on child gender-affirming care and surgeries, per a press release issued by the attorney general's office obtained by the station.
Alabama and other states that back the measure expressed fear and concern in what the amicus brief explains is an increase in “gender-related psychological issues among adolescents" and the efforts of some health care professionals to provide "these vulnerable young people with life-altering drugs and surgical treatment,” KXAN reported.
Paxton in the release asserted the brief shows no medical or scientific evidence justifying the necessity of "so-called sex changes performed on children."
“I support any law in any state that protects vulnerable children from the sexual predations of the left,” the state's lead legal counsel said, per KXAN. “I trust that the Alabama law will withstand judicial scrutiny, and I’m proud to help.”
According to the release, despite Europe's purported reputation of being more progressive than the U.S., medical professionals across the continent are "much more restrictive on these sorts of procedures."
"The bottom line is that the Alabama law is backed by science, good for children and necessary in the face of radical gender-ideology activists," Paxton said in the release.