Thu Aug 17, 2023 – 3:34 pm EDTThu Aug 17, 2023 – 3:35 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – America First Legal announced on August 16 it is suing Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to prevent “state-sanctioned kidnapping” of children under a “transgender” bill he signed into law.
“This lawsuit against Washington state officials,” it begins, “is about whether a minor child who is receiving or even just seeking so-called ‘gender-affirming’ treatment—which includes services that alter body parts, prescribe life-altering medications, and other related things—showing up at a youth shelter, homeless shelter, or a host home, provides sufficient grounds to steamroll parental constitutional rights.”
The lawsuit is intended to “block enforcement of a new ‘state-sanctioned kidnapping’ bill that allows the state to hide kids from their parents to perform ‘gender transitions’ – including disfiguring drugs and mutilating surgeries,” America First Legal explained on X (formerly Twitter).
The lawsuit also names the Washington Attorney General Robert Ferguson and the Secretary of the Washington Department of Children, Youth, and Families, Ross Hunter, in its attempt to stop the enforcement of Senate Bill 5599.
America First Legal (AFL) argues that the bill, signed into law on May 9 and effective as of
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