Supreme Court Petition Targets Washington Law Allowing Gender Treatments Without Parental Consent

By Greg Piper | Just the News

When runaway minors ask for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgical interventions to resemble the opposite sex, Washington state not only refers them for potentially irreversible treatment but also does not require parental notification and consent, hides their “location and condition” and unilaterally decides “reunification” conditions, a lawsuit alleges.

According to the historically overturned 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, however, parents cannot challenge the Evergreen State’s laws in court because they weren’t harmed.

A wide coalition of parents of would-be and actual runaway children with gender confusion, parental rights, religious liberty and gay-rights groups, 16 states and even a transgender child psychologist, are now backing America First Legal’s petition to the Supreme Court in friend-of-the-court briefs, most filed Tuesday, to reinstate AFL’s legal challenge.

Washington first drew alarm three years ago as legislation moved forward to create a “gender-affirming care” exception to parental notification for runaway children. AFL unsuccessfully sued to block the “state-sanctioned kidnapping” after it became law.

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