U.S Opposed Oklahoma Ban on Child Gender ‘Transitions’

In 2023, Oklahoma policymakers enacted Senate Bill 613, which states, “A health care provider shall not knowingly provide gender transition procedures to any child.”

When a lawsuit was filed seeking to have the law overturned, Oklahoma officials found themselves faced against not only run-of-the-mill liberal activists, but also against the United States government.

On June 9, 2023, Clinton J. Johnson, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, along with lawyers from the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, submitted a “Statement of Interest of the United States” urging the court to strike down Oklahoma’s law that prohibits providing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or sex-change surgeries to youth younger than 18, calling those acts “medically necessary health care.”

Read more at OCPA.