Chase Strangio, a biologically female transgender attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), became the first openly transgender attorney to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday morning.
Strangio, who appeared to have a beard, was described in court documents as male and referred to as “Mr.”
The case is USA vs. Scumetticoncerns a challenge to a Tennessee law banning the use of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria in minors. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld this law. The Biden-Harris administration appealed and was represented Wednesday by Attorney General Elizabeth Preloger. Prelauger said the court should find that the Tennessee law discriminates on the basis of gender classification, and therefore the case should be sent back to a lower court for a judge to analyze the law under a stricter standard of scrutiny. he claimed.
Strangio told the judge that the ACLU's arguments are no different from the federal government's arguments, except for the fact that the ACLU believes the entire law is invalid even without a rigorously monitored analysis. Ta.
Strangio then stepped outside the courtroom and told supporters that he was proud to argue in court that the Constitution protects transgender Americans in the same way it protects all other Americans. told.
Supporters of the Tennessee law say it protects children from irreversible harm caused by puberty-blocking factors such as infertility.
The court's conservative majority Oral argument.
The case is USA vs. ScumettiUnited States Supreme Court, No. 23-477.
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