Chase Strangio, a biologically female transgender attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), became the first openly transgender lawyer to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday morning.
Strangio, who appears to have facial hair, was referred to as male in Court documents and addressed as “Mister.”
The case, United States v. Skrmetti, concerns a challenge to a Tennessee law that bans the use of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria for minors. The Sixth Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the law; the Biden-Harris administration appealed and was represented Wednesday by Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar. Prelogar aruged that the Court should find that the Tennessee law discriminated on the basis of sex classification and therefore should be remanded back down to the lower courts for judges to analyze the law under a…
