WashPost PUFFS First Trans Lawyer at SCOTUS; NY Times Adds Troubling Reality for Democrats
24th June 2025
The headline deck to the June 16 piece by Jesús Rodríguez for the Washington Post, a profile of the first transgender lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court, heralded the gush to come.
Soon after publication, the Supreme Court ruled against Strangio’s side in the case of U.S. vs Skrmetti, as the ACLU lawyer and trans man (biological woman) failed to persuade the court that a Tennessee law blocking doctors from providing what Rodriguez called “gender-affirming medical treatment” (i.e. genital mutilation) to teenagers was unconstitutional.
Rodriguez took the left-wing line that conservatives started the transgender culture war (“the political right had tried to use them as a wedge issue”), not the biological male trans-activists demanding access to women’s sports and women’s bathrooms.