Carl Charles is a staff attorney with the New York office of Lambda Legal. His litigation, advocacy, and public education work aims to expand state and federal civil rights protections for transgender and nonbinary people. He has written about his own experiences as a transgender man, as well as legal issues facing transgender people broadly, for publications including The Advocate, Conde Nast’s them., the former LGBTQ Digital News platform Into, and Yes! Magazine. Find him on Twitter @oh_rarl