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Tue Feb 4, 2025, 10:14 AM Tuesday

Meet two lawyers leading the fight for trans people's lives against Trump's anti-trans attacks

Meet two lawyers leading the fight for trans people's lives against Trump's anti-trans attacks
Chase Strangio and Shannon Minter talk with Law Dork. "How this story comes out does depend to a great degree on what we do right now."

Chris Geidner
Feb 04, 2025

The first two weeks of the Trump administration included President Donald Trump signing four executive orders targeting transgender people and their ability to live full, public lives. ... Law Dork has covered those orders, as well as the litigation already resulting from them, but I wanted to talk with the lawyers bringing the lawsuits — and get a view of this moment from their perspective.

So, on Monday, I sat down with Chase Strangio, co-director of the ACLU's LGBTQ & HIV Project, and Shannon Minter, legal director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, to talk about it all. Two of the leading lawyers in the LGBTQ legal movement, both are also transgender themselves.

Strangio was at the U.S. Supreme Court in December, arguing for the trans plaintiffs and their parents who sued Tennessee over that state’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for trans minors, the latest of several arguments by Strangio in courts across the nation challenging various states’ anti-trans medical care and sports bans.

Minter is already part of teams litigating three lawsuits filed against the new Trump administration — two lawsuits challenging the anti-trans prison-related restrictions in Trump’s January 20 order purporting to define “sex” for the federal government and a lawsuit challenging Trump’s new ban on trans military service. ... In short, they’re exactly who one would want to talk with about the current legal picture — and the bigger picture — in this moment.

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