Sex on the Brain: the Assault on Trans People with Sasha Buchert

Alison, Liz, and Rebecca welcome another guest to the pod—Sasha Buchert, senior attorney and director of the Non-Binary and Transgender Rights Project for Lambda Legal. Sasha guides us through a discussion of the history of transgender rights in the courts, the current legislative attacks on trans people we are seeing across the country, and the litigation to overturn anti-trans laws.

Background

• Lambda Legal

• Sasha Buchert’s bio

• “Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins at Thirty” by Sasha Buchert

• Examples of Court Decisions Supporting Coverage of LGBT-Related Discrimination Under Title VII

Cases

• Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (1988)

• Bostock v. Clayton County (2020)

• Lusardi v. McHugh (2015)

• Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board (2021)

• Adams v. The School Board of St. Johns County, Florida (2020)

• B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education (2023)

• L.E. v. Lee (2023)

• Soule et al v. CT Association of Schools et al. (2023) 

• Bridge v. Oklahoma State Department of Education (2022)

• Schroer v. Billington (2008)

• Religious Sisters of Mercy v. Becerra (2022)

Resources

• American Atheists

• Sign up for action alerts 

• State Legislation Tracker 

• FFRF

• Sign up for action alerts 

• Lambda Legal events

• How to Contact Your Elected Officials

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