Interview with Chase Strangio

Chase Strangio is a white transmasculine attorney and activist. At the time of this interview, he was a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and served as Deputy Director for Trans Justice of the organization's LGBT & HIV Project. Prior to joining the ACLU, Strangio worked at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project in New York City, co-founded a bail fund with Lorena Borjas to provide cash bail and bond to LGBTQ+ detainees in criminal and immigration proceedings, and represented clients such as Chelsea Manning, Gavin Grimm, Aimee Stephens, and Gerald Bostock in high-profile LGBTQ civil rights cases, including cases heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. In this oral history interview, Strangio discusses his initial forays into legal work with the Sylvia Rivera Law Project in New York City, his thoughts on the use of litigation and legal avenues broadly as methods of working towards trans liberation, his experiences litigating several high-profile Title VII civil rights cases with the ACLU including Bostock v. Clayton County, his thoughts on the concept of biological sex, sex separation law and litigation, the politics of trans hypervisibility, and his own experiences as a highly visible trans person.

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Identifier: bv73c074w
Collection: Audio and Video Clips and Transcripts
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Strangio, Chase
Contributor(s): Beam, Myrl
Billund-Phibbs, Myra
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Dec. 2, 2020
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Aimee Stephens
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Chelsea Manning
Gavin Grimm
Gerald Bostock
LGBT & HIV Project
Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Places: New York
Topic(s): Anti-discrimination law
Detention of LGBTQ+ people
LGBTQ+ immigration rights
LGBTQ+ visibility
Transgender activism
Transgender people
Transgender political activists
Transmasculine people
White transgender people
Resource Type: Moving image
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Language: English
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