‘Gender Activists Won’t Stop Arkansas from Protecting Kids’

There’s no reason our state’s children should be subjected to experimental interventions now being banned in London, Stockholm, and Helsinki.

In 2021, the Arkansas general assembly voted overwhelmingly for what should be an uncontroversial proposition: Medical professionals cannot subject children to experimental treatments informed more by faculty-lounge gender theory than by the hard facts of medical and biological reality. The Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act was the first of its kind in the nation. Several other states have followed Arkansas’s lead, passing similar laws that will protect minors across the country.

The next chapter of the story, however, is all too familiar. Activists — aided by an American Civil Liberties Union of late concerned with every progressive cause du jour except civil liberties — sued in federal court to stop the SAFE Act. My office has the responsibility of defending the SAFE Act, and we presented compelling evidence, including expert testimony, demonstrating its wisdom.

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