Strangio, an attorney for the ACLU, is set to make history Wednesday as the first known transgender person to argue before the US Supreme Court.
With hindsight, Strangio’s career can appear like it’s been hurtling toward this week’s Supreme Court appearance.
Esseks often gets asked, he said, whether the ACLU tapped Strangio to present its case before the Supreme Court because he’s trans.
The Supreme Court ruling also could be life-altering for physicians like Dr. Izzy Lowell, whose telehealth practice, QueerMed, provides hormone therapy and other services for transgender and nonbinary people.
“I think about all of the arguments that have that have been held in the Supreme Court over just the basic dignity of people.
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