Trans Law and Social Movements with Chase Strangio
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This event will bring Chase Strangio, Co-Director for Transgender Justice with the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project, visiting scholar with the Penn LGBT Center, and a nationally recognized expert on transgender rights to Penn Carey Law for a lecture and conversation about trans politics and movement lawyering. Chase served as lead counsel with the ACLU for Chelsea Manning. Chase has received the American Bar Association’s Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity’s 2020 Stonewall Award. He will talk about the state of trans politics in the country at this juncture and the role of movement lawyering in the struggle for trans rights and justice today.
Chase’s work has included impact litigation, as well as legislative and administrative advocacy, on behalf of LGBTQ people and people living with HIV across the United States.
On December 4, 2024, Strangio presented oral arguments on behalf of the private plaintiffs in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a landmark Supreme Court challenge brought by three families and a medical provider against a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth.
Chase Strangio also is the subject of a feature length documentary film, Heightened Scrutiny, directed by Sam Feder, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
The digital program can be found here:
https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/13396-chase-strangio-march-2025-program