West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey is praising today’s decision from the United States Supreme Court, United States v. Skrmetti, upholding Tennessee’s law restricting gender-transition interventions for minors, ruling the protection of children must be a priority.
Statement from Attorney General McCuskey:
“I commend Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti for his steadfast fight against radical opposition to his state’s law to shield children from risky and unproven medical procedures. Today’s decision affirms that we have a duty to enact laws to protect our children.
This is a case we have been watching closely, as it relates to two of our pending cases. In BPJ v. West Virginia State Board of Education, we argue that a West Virginia statute providing that biological male students should not compete in girls' sports is entirely lawful. In our other case, Anderson v. Crouch, we argue that West Virginia has discretion to exclude certain expensive surgeries from state Medicaid coverage. Based on today’s ruling, we are developing our next steps and hope to have movement in these two cases soon, with the hope that common sense will once again prevail.”
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