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The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Alabama over a law approved this year banning hormone treatments and gender reassignment surgeries for minors. In August, the DOJ issued a subpoena to advocacy group Eagle Forum of Alabama, seeking “all information related to the non-profit’s legislative activities promoting” the disputed legislation since 2017. Last week the subpoena was quashed by a federal judge, and according to Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten, represents a welcomed blow to Biden’s DOJ support for “gender-affirming care.”
The Biden Justice Department just suffered a major loss in the gender ideology front in its War on Wrongthink. The little-discussed but significant defeat comes in the form of a federal judge’s order quashing a chilling subpoena into a conservative advocacy group, Eagle Forum of Alabama, that dared to take a position on transgenderism the DOJ can’t abide.
DOJ issued that subpoena under a case that is ground zero in the Biden administration’s jihad for “gender-affirming care.” As we’ve discussed, that “care” includes helping gender dysphoric children transition via puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, up to surgically removing genitalia.
As President Biden said in a recent interview, he believes no state should have the right to prevent the mutilation of children. His Justice Department is prosecuting accordingly. In April, it joined others in suing Alabama over its Vulnerable Compassion and Protection Act (VCAP). VCAP, enacted in May, but halted thereafter due to the litigation, prohibits “gender-affirming care” for minors under penalty of felony. DOJ claims it violates the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protections Clause.
Eagle Forum had lobbied for the legislation. According to the DOJ, it might have been involved in drafting it.
So, in a move that would make the January 6 Committee blush, in August, as part of its discovery process, DOJ issued a subpoena commanding Eagle Forum – again, an advocacy group, whose work is constitutionally protected, and a “non-party to the case” – to produce eleven categories of documents covering five-and-a-half years’ worth of material.
