Bio
Aditi Fruitwala is a Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU Center for Liberty, where she litigates and advocates on behalf of marginalized communities. Her work focuses on advancing transgender justice, mitigating harms caused by the family policing system, and combatting the use of religion to discriminate.
Aditi currently serves as counsel in Poe v. Harris-Madden, a federal lawsuit challenging unconstitutional delays in the appeals process for reports on the New York statewide child abuse registry; Orr v. Trump, a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s policy prohibiting transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people from updating the sex designations on their passports; Doe v. Kansas, a state lawsuit challenging a Kansas law requiring driver’s licenses to reflect sex assigned at birth and authorizing lawsuits against transgender and intersex people who use restrooms consistent with their gender identity; and Disability Law Center v. Cox, a federal lawsuit seeking to enjoin a Utah law that creates a separate and severely restrictive guardianship regime for some people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
In 2021, Aditi was named one of the “Best LGBTQ+ Lawyers Under 40” by the National LGBTQ Bar Association. Before joining the ACLU, Aditi spent five years at the ACLU of Southern California, where she worked on LGBTQ rights, gender justice, and policing issues. She previously served for three years as an Honors Deputy Attorney General under AG Kamala Harris at the California Department of Justice.