The ACLU’s top transgender attorney criticized Harris as Democrats grapple with trans issues

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to allow Chase Strangio, co-director of American Civil Liberties UnionThe LGBTQ and HIV Project to argue in early December on behalf of the families of three Tennessee minors who challenged the state’s ban on cross-sex hormones for patients under 18. The case is expected to be one of the highest profile of the mandate of the Supreme Court.

Strangio, a biological woman who uses the pronoun “he/she,” has made hundreds of posts online advocating for broad access to medical procedures, including for “trans youth,” and has a history of promoting the notion that gender is subjective and that doctors just “assigned” at birth.

“Our genital characteristics are a component of who we are and do not medically or biologically define our sex,” Strangio wrote for Slate in July 2016. “Furthermore, all the components of sex, from genitalia to hormones to chromosomes, exist on a spectrum rather than as a binary.”

The left wing of the Democratic Party agrees, and those beliefs about gender have caused rifts within the party this election cycle. Strangio supports Harris, but dedicated a lengthy Instagram post to those on the left who say “Harris and the Democrats” don’t care about transgender people.

“I disagree,” Strangio said before arguing in a separate post that a second Trump presidency would “legitimate government discrimination against trans people for generations.”

“I understand that this is deeply upsetting to some people,” Strangio said of supporting Harris, adding, “I believe our government is funding and enabling genocide. And it has been for decades.”

“I defend trans life and bodily autonomy as best I can in a violent and compromised system,” Strangio said.

Strangio’s remarks come as Harris and other Democrats have dodged questions in recent months about the extent of their support for transgender rights. Over the past two weeks, the Trump campaign has poured more than $21 million into highlighting Harris’ past support of funding transgender procedures for people incarcerated in prisons or Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities. conformable to her response to a 2019 ACLU survey.

Harris was also evasive on the issue of when ask by NBC News’ Hallie Jackson to clarify her position on transgender procedures. The Democratic candidate said that while he believed transgender people “should be treated with dignity,” treatments are ultimately a “decision that doctors will make as to what is medically necessary.”

Strangio defended Harris in a new Thursday’s Instagram post, which called Harris’ vagueness on the matter during the NBC interview a form of “strategic protection,” while suggesting the type of judges appointed under Biden and Harris “make a difference” to court cases transgender.

“People are suggesting that this shows they’re abandoning trans people,” Strangio added. “I have a very different reading.”

Despite Strangio’s frequent posting and exercise of free speech, Atty asked for silence in 2020 by Abigail Shrier, a bestselling author who has written extensively on the subject of transgender people coming to regret their decisions to make life-changing changes to their bodies.

“Stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on,” the lawyer for the free speech law firm said in 2020.

Strangio has publicly cast doubt that the Supreme Court would overturn Tennessee’s ban on cross-sex hormone procedures for minors, according to a Law Dork podcast episode, during which ACLU attorney PASSED people ask, “Why would you take this to the Supreme Court, knowing that the Supreme Court is a risky move.”

The judges will hear arguments in United States v. Skrmetti on Dec. 4 in response to a Justice Department petition after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit upheld the Tennessee law, marking a blow to the ACLU’s case.

Do No Harm, an organization that advocates for the protection of children from juvenile delinquency proceedings, called the ACLU’s selection of Strangio a blatant move for “identity politics at the expense of science.”

“The choice of Chase Strangio — who rejected the idea of ​​biological sex — to argue before the Supreme Court reaffirms the ACLU’s commitment to a policy of identity without facts at the expense of science,” said Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of the board of directors of Do No Harm.

“As we pointed out in our amicus brief, Tennessee law follows medical ethics and that these gender reassignment procedures are not supported by evidence-based medicine,” Goldfarb added. “We look forward to oral arguments and believe the Court will uphold the protection of Tennessee’s children against this harmful ideology.”

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The Skrmetti the case focuses on the narrow question of whether banning transgender medical treatments for children violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. While the Supreme Court granted the ACLU’s request for split arguments in Skrmettijudges denied the organization’s request to consider a due process complaint.

The Washington Examiner made several attempts to contact the ACLU and Strangio.