Abbey Mann

Chase Strangio Is Defending Us on All Fronts The ACLU attorney is busier than ever fighting a historic avalanche of anti-trans legislation — in the courtroom and beyond.

The second is a profile I wrote last year of Chase Strangio, who today will make history by becoming the first ever openly trans attorney to argue in front of the Supreme Court.
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Slew of Discredited, Anti-Trans Doctors to Testify In Upcoming SCOTUS Case on Trans Health Care 'U.S. v Skrmetti' will decide whether Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth violates the Constitution.

“pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Paul Hruz…previously hired by the ADF to testify against gender-affirming care. The judge…declared that Hruz and other ADF medical witnesses were ‘testifying more from a religious doctrinal standpoint rather than that required of experts.’”
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Our study on factors related to the physical and mental health of transgender adults is in the current issue of Stigma and Health doi.org/10.1037/sah0...

Trans health care under Trump may follow the abortion playbook and its Hyde amendment Republicans spent $222 million on anti-trans and LGBTQ advertising in the campaign. Various policy initiatives are on the incoming administration's to-do list.

A federal ban on gender affirming care for transgender minors is not the only goal of the incoming administration. Banning Medicare and Medicaid coverage for gender affirming care for all transgender people is also on table. www.npr.org/sections/sho...