Plaintiffs who sued the state of Alabama over its new law, a few years ago, that protects children from harmful drugs and surgeries, have given up.

Jonathan Scruggs, of the ADF, explained the American Civil Liberties Union and others sought the dismissal of Boe v. Marshall, where “politicized interest groups worked alongside the Biden administration” challenged the state’s protections for children.

“Alabama rightly enacted a law that protects children’s welfare—supporting their natural development and ensuring that children experiencing gender dysphoria have a chance for healing and compassionate mental-health support,” he said in a prepared statement.

“Across the globe, we’re seeing a refreshing return to sanity after radical gender ideology devastated far too many young lives. Alliance Defending Freedom has been honored to support Alabama and the leadership of Alabama Attorney General Marshall to protect children and families. We applaud Alabama and the 24 other states that are following the science, protecting children, and working to stop an unsafe medical experiment that has gone on far too long.”

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said, “Three years ago, multiple sets of plaintiffs represented by the ACLU, SPLC, and some of the nation’s largest law firms filed suit against Alabama to challenge our law protecting vulnerable kids from life-altering sex-change procedures. We fought back. We defeated a preliminary injunction and conducted court-ordered discovery into the so-called ‘standards of care’ that these groups claimed were evidence-based. What we found was devastating to plaintiffs’ challenge: a medical, legal, and political scandal that will be studied for decades. Given the evidence we uncovered, it is no surprise the plaintiffs abandoned their challenge. We uncovered the truth. We exposed the scandal. We won.”

A report at AL.com said the law bans transgender youth from so-called “gender-affirming care.”

That’s the description members of the lucrative “gender-affirming care” industry use to describe costly chemical treatments and body mutilating surgeries that are prescribed for children with gender dysphoria.

In most of those cases, the dysphoria eventually is resolved without intervention if children are left alone.

The Alabama legislature passed the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act in 2022, prompting a group of parents to sue.

“The law makes it a felony for doctors to administer puberty blockers and hormones to individuals under 19 years of age. If convicted an individual could be sentenced to over 10 years in prison,” the report said.

Several national campaigns, including the far-left Human Rights Campaign, the extremist Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders, were representing plaintiffs.

The National Center for Lesbian Rights and GLAD Law provided a joint statement to AL.com, stating, “We will continue fighting to ensure families across the country have the freedom to get their transgender children the proven medical care that enables them to thrive.”