Many transgender and gender diverse people are licensed attorneys, judges, lawmakers, and elected office-holders. This list is currently focused on the United States.
This site also has a section on legal aspects of making a gender transition.
US attorneys
Below are a few notable transgender and gender diverse lawyers who have been admitted to at least one bar in the United States.
CB Baga (Minnesota)
- Twitter: @cb_baga
Kylar Broadus (Missouri)
Julie Chovanes (Pennsylvania)
Denise E. Brogan-Kator (Florida)
- Twitter: @BroganKator
Ellen Krug (Iowa)
Shannon Price Minter (California)
- Twitter: @shannonminter5
Sheryl Ring (Illinois)
Martine Rothblatt
- Wikipedia: Martine Rothblatt
Dean Spade (California)
Chase Strangio (Massachusetts)
- Twitter: @chasestrangio
Ezra Young (New York)
US judges
Phyllis Randolph Frye (Texas)
- Associate Judge for the Municipal Courts, Houston
- transgenderlegal.com [archive]
- liberatinglaw.com [archive]
Victoria Kolakowski (California)
- Judge for the Alameda County Superior Court
- America’s first elected transgender judge
- vkolakowski.com
US lawmakers and elected office-holders
- Lisa Bunker
- Gerri Cannon
- Joanne Marie Conte
- Phillipe Cunningham
- Althea Garrison
- Kim Coco Iwamoto
- Andrea Jenkins
- Stephe Koontz
- Rachel Levine
- Sarah McBride
- Lisa Middleton
- Stu Rasmussen
- Danica Roem
- Lauren Scott
- Amanda Simpson
- Taylor Small
- Brianna Titone
- Mauree Turner
- Aime Wichtendahl
Historic trans and gender diverse attorneys
Thomas Baty (1869 – 1954) – British
Sonia Burgess (1947 2010) – British
Andrew S. Cray (1986 – 2014) – American
Pauli Murray (1910 – 1985) – American
Shain Mahaffey Neumeier (born 1987) – American
Mia F. Yamamoto (California – retired)
- miayamamoto.com [archive]
Outside the United States
- Kael McKenzie – Canada judge (born 1971)
- Micheline Montreuil – Canada
- Nisha Rao – Pakistan
Aaron Greenberg
Federal law status for sex discrimination and gender variance (law.harvard.edu) Harvard Journal of Law and Gender 2005. (PDF)
An Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Analysis of Binary Sex Categories, in TRANSGENDER RIGHTS: HISTORY, POLITICS, AND LAW (Paisley Currah & Shannon Minter, eds., Univ. of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2005)
Gender Nonconformity: A Comprehensive Theoretical Approach to Break Down the Maternal Wall and End Discrimination Against Gender Benders :Commentary on Keynote Speaker Joan Williams’s “Beyond the Glass Ceiling,” 26 T. JEFFERSON L. REV. 37 (2003)
Legal Aspects of Gender Assignment, 13 ENDOCRINOLOGIST 276 (2003)
Definitional Dilemmas: Male or Female? Black or White? The Law’s Failure to Recognize Intersexuals and Multiracials (ch. 5), in GENDER NONCONFORMITY, RACE, AND SEXUALITY: CHARTING THE CONNECTIONS 102 (Toni Lester, ed., Madison: Wisconsin Univ. Press, 2002)
Deconstructing Binary Race and Sex Categories: A Comparison of the Multiracial and transgender Experience, 39 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 919 (2002)
When Is a Man a Man and When Is a Woman a Woman?, 52 FLA. L. REV. 745 (2000)