Transgender people are facing an all-out assault in state legislatures, in the courts and in the public discourse. Opportunistically weaponized by political actors to turn out votes, this small and marginalized community has never faced so many barriers to legal equality and material survival. In this talk, the ACLU’s Deputy Director for Trans Justice Chase Strangio will talk about how the fight for trans rights takes on new urgency in the court in a post-Dobbs world, the limits of legal advocacy and the potential for cross-movement mobilizing in the years ahead.

In a post-Dobbs world, access to abortion has been dangerously compromised. The anti-abortion movement has quickly pivoted to attacking access to health care for transgender people and in legislatures and courts, the anti-abortion playbook is being methodically executed to broaden the reach of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs and to curtail bodily autonomy for everyone. In this talk, the ACLU’s Chase Strangio will discuss the current overlapping fights for reproductive and transgender justice and how winning the fight for bodily autonomy will require coordinated movements in the coming years.

The attacks on the freedom and dignity of trans people and their families continue to escalate, with one-third of the country passing laws that criminalize and ban access to gender-affirming care. A nationally recognized expert on transgender rights, the Deputy Director for Transgender Justice for the ACLU LGBTQ and HIV Project and the top LGBTQ+ attorney in the country, Chase Strangio discusses the ACLU’s Trans initiatives, his role at the famed civil rights organization and what we all can do to help protect Trans people from discrimination.

How can we keep our Trans or Non-binary children thriving, healthy and safe now that they face a world that no longer appreciates or recognizes them? In this talk, Chase Strangio, a nationally recognized expert on transgender rights, the Deputy Director for Transgender Justice for the ACLU LGBTQ and HIV Project and the top LGBTQ+ attorney in the country, shares what parents need to know about rights for their kids and the precautions they need to take to ensure they are not discriminated against.

Gender-affirming care is essential for the health and well-being of transgender people. It allows us to live our lives authentically and as our full selves. And yet every day, more and more barriers are being put into place to limit access to it. In this talk, Chase Strangio, a nationally recognized expert on transgender rights, the Deputy Director for Transgender Justice for the ACLU LGBTQ and HIV Project and the top LGBTQ+ attorney in the country, discusses these barriers, including lack of insurance coverage, discrimination from healthcare providers and lack of education about transgender health. “Everyone deserves to have access to the healthcare they need, regardless of their gender identity,” Chase says.