First openly trans lawyer to argue in front of Supreme Court addresses gender-affirming care bansSource C-Span

ACLU trans attorney Chase Strangio defended trans surgeries for minors in an interview with CNN host Jake Tapper on Tuesday. Strangio will be defending transgender surgeries in the state of Tennessee in front of the Supreme Court.

At issue is a Tennessee law that bans access to hormones, puberty blockers, and other treatments for trans kids in the state.

For Chase Strangio, the professional path that’s led to this moment – in which he’ll have 15 minutes to present an argument defending gender-affirming care for trans youth before the Supreme Court – cannot be unwoven from his life outside the courtroom.

It is not lost on me that I will be standing there at the lectern at the Supreme Court in part because I was able to have access to the medical care that is the very subject of the case that we’re litigating,

The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared skeptical Wednesday of a challenge to a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for transgender children . Chief Justice John Roberts suggested that the issues should be left to state legislatures rather than the courts.

The Supreme Court will dive headfirst into the politically fraught issue of transgender rights on Wednesday when it hears a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors in the highest-profile case of the fall.

Lawyer and transgender activist Chase Strangio told CNN’s Jake Tapper Tuesday that kids don't consent to gender transition treatments, their parents do.

Chase Strangio will be the first openly transgender attorney to argue before the nation's highest court, representing families who say Tennessee’s ban on health care for transgender minors leaves their children terrified about the future.