Bio
Chase Strangio is Deputy Director for Transgender Justice with the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project and a nationally recognized expert on transgender rights. Chase’s work includes impact litigation, as well as legislative and administrative advocacy, on behalf of LGBTQ people and people living with HIV across the United States.
Prior to joining the ACLU, Chase was an Equal Justice Works fellow and the Director of Prisoner Justice Initiatives at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, where he represented transgender and gender non-conforming individuals in confinement settings. In 2012, Chase co-founded the Lorena Borjas Community Fund, an organization that provides direct bail/bond assistance to LGBTQ immigrants in criminal and immigration cases. Chase is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law and Grinnell College.
Chase is counsel in the ACLU’s challenge to North Carolina’s notorious HB2, Carcaño, et al. v. Cooper, et al, the ACLU’s challenge to Trump’s trans military ban, Stone v. Trump, and the case of Aimee Stephens, R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v EEOC, which will be heard by the Supreme Court in October 2019.
Selected Appearances:
Rachel Maddow, Vice, NowThis, PBC NewsHour, Democracy Now, Pod Save America
Selected Commentary:
What Is a “Male Body”?, Slate; The new war on identity politics is actually a very old way of repressing marginalized Americans, Quartz; To My Fellow White Others, The Progressive; Martina Navratilova Is Breaking My Heart, The Advocate
Awards & Honors:
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Fellow (2018-19); Association of LGBTQ Journalists, Excellence in Opinion/Editorial Writing Award (2018); Honorary Degree recipient, Grinnell College (May 2018); National LGBT Bar Association, Top 40 LGBT Lawyers Under 40 (2018); Northeastern University School of Law Daynard Distinguished Visiting Fellow (Winter 2018); Callen-Lorde Community Health Award Recipient (November 2017); BitchMedia “Bitch 50” Recognition of 50 individuals who have used their “creative or political power to further advance visibility, equality, or access for marginal folks.” (Summer 2017); NBCOut #Pride30 Recipient (Summer 2017); Sylvia Rivera Law Project Attorneys and Advocates Award recipient (2015); New York City Council Outstanding LGBT Champion recognition (June 2014); Trans100 Recipient (2014)
Featured work
Dec 15, 2017
The Fight for Open Transgender Military Service Is Only Beginning

Nov 9, 2017
Our Fight to Defeat the Transgender Military Ban Enters a New Phase

Oct 26, 2017
Stop Performing Nonconsensual, Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Young Intersex Children

Oct 18, 2017
The University of North Carolina Continues to Defend Its Right to Discriminate Against the Trans Community

Sep 22, 2017
The Masterpiece Cakeshop Supreme Court Case Is One Piece of a Much Larger Attack on LGBTQ Lives

Sep 14, 2017
We Are Asking the Court to Put an Immediate Stop to the President’s Anti-Trans Military Ban

Aug 28, 2017
We Are Taking Trump to Court to Stop His Illegal and Cruel Ban on Transgender Service Members

Jul 26, 2017
With Three Tweets President Trump Cruelly Threatens Trans Service Members With Rank Discrimination
