DENVER – Women’s groups, female athletes, scholars, 23 states, and many others have filed friend-of-the-court briefs asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit to halt the Biden-Harris administration’s unlawful attempt to redefine the word “sex” to include “gender identity” in Title IX, a federal law designed to create equal opportunities for women in education and athletics. 

ADF Senior Counsel Chris Schandevel:  “The rights of conscience are at the core of our constitutional freedoms, and forcing medical professionals to violate their beliefs and their Hippocratic oath to do no harm violates our most foundational freedoms. The Biden-Harris administration’s Title X rule forces doctors to refer for abortions to receive federal funding and ignores the reality that referring for an abortion is antithetical to the healing profession....” 

WASHINGTON – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday in United States of America v. Skrmetti, urging the court to let state legislatures protect children from experimental medical procedures. In the case, which the Supreme Court will hear later this year, the state of Tennessee is defending its law that protects children from harmful, unnecessary, and high-risk medical procedures that alter their bodies to make them look like the opposite sex.