Chase Strangio is Co-Director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project and our Spring Scholar in Residence. A national leader in transgender rights litigation and advocacy, Chase has been counsel in some of the past decade’s most pivotal legal fights on behalf of transgender litigants. His notable cases include: ACLU’s challenge to North Carolina’s HB2 (Carcaño, et al. v. Cooper, et al); ACLU’s challenge to Trump’s trans military ban (Stone v. Trump); Aimee Stephens case at the Supreme Court (R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v EEOC); Recent challenges to anti-trans laws and policies in Tennessee, Idaho, Texas, and Arkansas; Counsel in Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court decision that struck down bans on marriages for same-sex couples. It was recently announced that Chase will become the first openly transgender person ever to argue in front of the supreme court in this upcoming session.
 
Chase appears regularly in media and has produced multiple short films, including the Emmy-award winning short, “Texas Strong”. In 2020, he was named to TIME Magazine’s List of the 100 most influential people of the year. Chase is also a co-founder of the Lorena Borjas Community Fund, TranSanta, and the Trans Week of Visibility and Action. Please join us in a family dinner with Chase (open to the community)!