PERSON: Chase Strangio

Deputy Director for Transgender Justice

Chase Strangio (born October 29, 1982) is an American lawyer and transgender rights activist. He is the deputy director for transgender justice and staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He is the first known transgender person to make oral arguments before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Strangio has described himself as “a constitutional lawyer who fundamentally doesn’t believe in the Constitution.” He has called civil marriage “a fundamentally violent institution.” Strangio disagrees with the idea that transgender women could be born with a male body, saying there is no such thing as a “male body” and that “A penis is not a male body part. It’s just an unusual body part for a woman.”

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