Alabama Attorney General Marshall joined a multi-state legal effort last week challenging a Colorado school district’s policy that requires students to share hotel rooms and locker rooms based on self-identified gender rather than biological sex.

The action comes after a federal district court dismissed a lawsuit filed by parents opposed to the policy. Marshall joined a 21-state brief supporting the parents’ appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. According to a news release form Marshall's office, the brief argues that the district court treated the Christian parents as second-class citizens by blocking their case from moving forward to discovery, despite similar cases proceeding elsewhere.

The coalition also contends the school district’s policy relies on medical guidelines that Alabama courts have previously discredited in other 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,” Marshall said in the release. “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.”

Marshall has led efforts nationwide to protect children from irreversible sex-change procedures, successfully defending Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act. In January 2024, the Eleventh Circuit cleared the way for the law to be enforced.

Joining Marshall on the brief 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, along with the Arizona state legislature.

The full brief is available at www.alabamaag.gov.