An American Civil Liberties Union lawyer will make history in December as the first openly transgender attorney to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court, opposing Tennessee’s Republican-backed law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors.

The ACLU’s Chase Strangio, 41, represents a group of transgender people who pursued a lawsuit challenging the measure that prohibits medical treatments including hormones and surgeries for minors experiencing gender dysphoria.

ACLU Legal Director Cecillia Wang called Strangio the leading U.S. legal expert on transgender rights.

“He brings to the lectern not only brilliant constitutional lawyering, but also the tenacity and heart of a civil rights champion,” Wang said.

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        Why?

        I tried reading a few pages but it was super dense. Like some kind of odd phililosophy about witches and the devil? I put it down when they basically made a point that was something like “because we can never know the nature of the lodestone” and because I was done with my poop.