The number of openly trans attorneys in Illinois increased exponentially. Judges received mandatory bias training. And Pritzker and Raoul, who came out full throatedly in support of trans rights, cruised to reelection in 2022. I voted for them both.

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A year after that, Illinois enacted for the first time a comprehensive ban on discrimination by judges and lawyers - not just on the basis of gender identity, but on race, national origin, pregnancy status, disability, and socioeconomic status too.

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The continued genital inspections were a small price to pay for having an ally in the governor's mansion, they said. A Republican would be worse for trans rights. And besides, I could stop being a lawyer and do something else. I refused to drop my suit. A year later, we won.

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argued that my lawsuit forced Pritzker and Kwame Raoul to either oppose my lawsuit and alienate trans people, or decline to defend the suit and alienate moderates. They argued that if I continued with the lawsuit, Pritzker would lose reelection.

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My lawsuit garnered a good bit of news and media coverage, and I got a call from a bigwig at a well known legacy nonprofit. They asked me to drop the suit because it essentially required the Pritzker administration to take a side on trans rights. The person who called me, who was cis,

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