Anti-Trans Sports Bans Head to SCOTUS with Chase Strangio
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
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4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in two pivotal cases about whether the government can discriminate against trans women and girls in athletics. Imara sits down with Supreme Court veteran and civil rights lawyer Chase Strangio, unpacking the strategy being used to challenge state laws than ban trans girls from playing sports. In this necessary conversation exploring what’s at stake in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.J.P., the pair unpack how the right-wing actors taking aim at trans girls actually have their sights set on a much bigger target: the Equal Protection Clause and, ultimately, democracy itself.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey fam, it's me Amara. |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome to the Translash podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lives. |
| 0:15.7 | Well, welcome back to 2026. |
| 0:18.8 | As you know, this is our very first episode of the year. I hope that you |
| 0:23.2 | had a very restful holiday season and beginning of the new year because I believe that |
| 0:30.5 | 2026 is going to be a doozy. We're going to need it. And there's no better signal for that |
| 0:36.3 | than the fact that we are jumping into it |
| 0:39.7 | right away this year. There is a Supreme Court case next week that will decide the fate of |
| 0:46.8 | trans kids in sports. It's two cases combined together. Hickox versus Little and West Virginia |
| 0:53.8 | versus BPJ, sort of two different |
| 0:56.3 | transport cases combined. |
| 0:59.3 | Now today we're going to start with two weeks of reporting on this particular case by giving |
| 1:05.6 | you a preview of what's at stake. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm joined by civil rights lawyer Chase Strangio of the ACLU, who became the first trans person |
| 1:14.3 | to present oral arguments during the landmark case, U.S. versus Scrimetti. |
| 1:19.3 | All of our listeners will know that we covered that from beginning to end, and we'll also |
| 1:23.8 | do it with this case, with another episode following the oral arguments |
| 1:28.1 | that you'll be able to listen to after that takes place again next week. |
| 1:32.8 | Now, I will be in Washington to listen to that, so you'll not only get the commentary of our |
| 1:37.8 | experts, but be able to know what I saw and heard during those oral arguments. |
| 1:42.5 | So I hope that you're going to be following along with everything that Translash is going to do and sharing that out with your networks. |
| 1:49.7 | So we have a lot to cover over the next couple of weeks and including today, again, with ACLU lawyer Chase Strangeo. |
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