Although it’s nothing new for the American Civil Liberties Union to engage in some actions and rhetoric deemed offensive to millions of Americans, a recent comment by one lawyer for the organization attracted particularly acute criticism.
Chase Strangio, who happens to identify as transgender, went on a rant about President Donald Trump’s executive order recognizing only two genders.
During the interview, the aptly named Strangio went on to insult biological women by clearly prioritizing the relatively small number of men who insist that they were actually meant to be women.
As Fox News reported:
The trans rights activist – who is also a transgender man – appeared on the left-wing digital news show “Democracy Now!” to slam President Donald Trump’s executive order on sex and gender.
Strangio complained to show host Amy Goodman that Trump “is targeting trans people by focusing on retrenching this notion of a fixed gender binary at the time of conception.”
While making the case, Strangio referred to biological women as “non-transgender women.”
Of course, Strangio is no stranger to courting controversy on the topic:
Chase Strangio sounds like the name of a cartoon villain, and ‘his’ plot to eradicate the concept of biological sex sounds like something a cartoon villain would come up with. The writers of this kid’s show must have been on LSD when they wrote it. pic.twitter.com/ng7IiwqVCz
— FRANCIS AARON (@FrancisAaronUK) April 8, 2021
Meet Chase Strangio, a trans identified female who believes kids know they’re trans at 2 years old. Chase is a lawyer with the ACLU and is arguing at SCOTUS right now to allow child sex changes to continue.
We will defeat Chase and this entire ideology.pic.twitter.com/IcD6QilIZb
— Gays Against Groomers (@againstgrmrs) December 4, 2024
The ACLU is rotten to the core.
I’m not in the least surprised that when you hire people like Kate Bachrach (Chase Strangio) who will lie right to your face about their sex, the obvious evidence notwithstanding, that they will also lie in court, whether directly or by omission. https://t.co/zjbvGNDntu pic.twitter.com/D8hdlIpjBn
— Michael Heister (@michaelheister) December 30, 2024
Across the broader population, Trump’s executive order has resonated with many Americans who believe our society has already gone too far to accommodate transgender people at the expense of the safety of women and girls.
Here’s how Breitbart reported on the president’s recent move:
“Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women’s domestic abuse shelters to women’s workplace showers,” the order reads, explaining that this is “wrong” and adding that such moves — namely, attempting to remove the reality of biological sex — “fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being.”
“The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system. Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself,” Trump’s order reads, blasting the left for replacing the “immutable biological reality of sex with an internal, fluid, and subjective sense of self unmoored from biological facts.”
“Accordingly, my Administration will defend women’s rights and protect freedom of conscience by using clear and accurate language and policies that recognize women are biologically female, and men are biologically male,” the order reads, making it very clear that it is now the policy of the U.S. to “recognize two sexes, male and female.”
Here’s a clip of Strangio’s latest remarks:
ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio is panicking that Trump banned men from “non-trans women” (women) locker rooms pic.twitter.com/dxOYJv00qk
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 22, 2025