The Salt Lake Tribune

A lawsuit filed by 17 state attorneys general — including Utah’s — taking aim at rights for people with gender dysphoria, she and other influencers warned, could also endanger longstanding protections for people with disabilities. Utahns, afraid of what that meant for themselves and loved ones, flooded the inbox of Attorney General Derek Brown, while others demanded answers from attorneys general across the country. After days of furor online, Brown and the other states’ attorneys filed a clarification in court this week: They are not asking a judge to throw out a portion of federal law known as Section 504, which requires schools, hospitals and other places that get federal funding to protect the rights of people with disabilities. “Plaintiffs clarify that they have never moved — and do not plan to move — the Court to declare Section 504 as … unconstitutional on its face,” the filing in federal court in Texas said. Among the lawsuit’s listed demands, it asks that the court “Declare Section 504 … unconstitutional.” But Brown and other attorneys general have repeatedly insisted the lawsuit would not gut the entire section of law.