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From the Associated Press: When the Supreme Court this week wades into the contentious issue of transgender rights, the justices will hear from an attorney with knowledge that runs deep.
Chase Strangio will be the first openly transgender attorney to argue before the nation’s highest court, representing families who say Tennessee’s ban on health care for transgender minors leaves their children terrified about the future.
Arguments in the case come amid heightened pushback to transgender rights, including a presidential campaign where Republican Donald Trump put his fierce opposition front and center.
“I am able to do my job because I have had this health care that transformed and, frankly, saved my life,” Stangio claimed. “I am a testament to the fact that we live among everyone.”
Tennessee, meanwhile, will argue before the Supreme Court that treatments like puberty blockers and hormones carry risks for young people and its law protects them from making treatment decisions prematurely.
Strangio, 42, a biological woman, came out as transgender while attending law school.
Strangio is now an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, and has represented former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, challenged a ban on transgender people serving in the military and helped win an LGBTQ+ worker-discrimination case at the Supreme Court.
The report states that Strangio is the “father” of a 12-year-old child, and notes that Strangio’s own father is a Trump supporter.
The ACLU couldn’t have picked a better lawyer to argue their case for ‘gender affirming care’ for kids before the Supreme Court.
Chase Strangio is both a bona fide idiot & so unstable that she once claimed she couldn’t pay bills bc they deadnamed her. https://t.co/nZSbSicMEo
— ♀️Jennifer Gingrich ✡️ (@fem_mb) December 1, 2024
This woman is Chase Strangio – the ACLU’s lead transgender rights attorney who will be arguing in favor or child sterili3ation and muti1ation at the Supreme Court one week from today.
Do your thing, Judicial Branch. pic.twitter.com/qLMA6KBJum
— Kit Hart, American Girl (@5sweetharts_) November 27, 2024
Another one from the @ACLU‘s Chase Strangio, who I will be seeing in Washington, DC, on Wednesday when he becomes the first openly transgender person to argue a case before the Supreme Court, in the U.S. v Skrmetti case. pic.twitter.com/fvCAMfUJeN
— Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) November 28, 2024
The day after Donald Trump’s election victory, ACLU transgender justice advocate Chase Strangio promised to “fight like hell.”
Now, he’s about to make history in arguments before the Supreme Court on gender-affirming care.https://t.co/cEz4g3gqMk
— Bloomberg Law (@BLaw) December 2, 2024
Chase Strangio will be the first openly transgender attorney to argue before the nation’s highest court, representing families who say Tennessee’s ban on health care for transgender minors leaves their children terrified about the future. https://t.co/bXI3BijxQ3
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 2, 2024
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