First openly trans lawyer to argue in front of Supreme Court addresses gender-affirming care bansSource C-Span

ACLU trans attorney Chase Strangio defended trans surgeries for minors in an interview with CNN host Jake Tapper on Tuesday. Strangio will be defending transgender surgeries in the state of Tennessee in front of the Supreme Court.

For Chase Strangio, the professional path that’s led to this moment – in which he’ll have 15 minutes to present an argument defending gender-affirming care for trans youth before the Supreme Court – cannot be unwoven from his life outside the courtroom.

It is not lost on me that I will be standing there at the lectern at the Supreme Court in part because I was able to have access to the medical care that is the very subject of the case that we’re litigating,

At issue is a Tennessee law that bans access to hormones, puberty blockers, and other treatments for trans kids in the state.

The day after Donald Trump’s election victory, ACLU transgender justice advocate Chase Strangio promised his 98,000 Instagram followers he’ll “fight like hell.”

Justice Neil Gorsuch authored a 2020 ruling protecting transgender people, but he was notably silent during a Supreme Court hearing Wednesday.

The Supreme Court's conservatives said Wednesday they are inclined to uphold state laws in half the nation that prohibit the use of hormone treatments for transgender teens. Led by Chief Justice John G.

Tennesseans are in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. today challenging the state's ban on transgender care for minors. Listen live here.

The US Supreme Court suggested it’s likely to uphold laws that ban gender-affirming treatments for minors as the justices considered a case likely to determine the rights of transgender children in two dozen states.