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
- disabilityjusticelaw.com [archive]
- Mia F. Yamamoto (California – retired)
- miayamamoto.com [archive]
Outside the United States
- Kael McKenzie – Canada judge (born 1971)
- Micheline Montreuil – Canada
- Nisha Rao – Pakistan