Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Idaho and West Virginia schools can continue to enforce bans on transgender athletes playing on girls’ and women’s teams. It is the latest development in a political and legal attack on trans people, and trans youth in particular, that has increased in recent years. Following that decision, Kai Wright spoke with Guardian reporter Sam Levin, who has been covering the debate over trans athletes in California and speaking with students and their families, and Chase Strangio, co-director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ and HIV Project, who is the first trans person to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court. They go over the legal and political strategies energizing the anti-trans movement, and discuss why this most recent decision could open the door to the erosion of civil liberties for everyone.
