Duncan co-founded Schaerr Duncan after leaving the Becket Fund, which recently created a lie-filled anti-transgender website as part of its efforts to promote discrimination in health care.

At both firms, he has dedicated his career to limiting the civil rights of LGBTQ people — particularly trans people. He also has spoken multiple times before the Alliance Defending Freedom — a hate group that supports criminalization of homosexuality in the U.S. and abroad.

Schaerr Duncan has defended anti-trans parties in some of the most significant court cases involving trans rights in the last few years, including the proponents of North Carolina’s discriminatory HB 2 and the Gloucester County School District, which discriminated against student Gavin Grimm.

In the North Carolina case, Duncan filled the record with junk-science statements from quack “experts,” arguing that being transgender is a “delusion” and (contrary to the views of America’s leading pediatricians) that parents should discourage “transgender persistence.”

And for the last two years in G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board, he has been fiercely arguing that transgender students like Gavin Grimm are not protected under federal law and are “threats” to other students.

Duncan has not only been a harsh critic of the Supreme Court’s marriage equality decisions in Obergefell v. Hodges and United States v. Windsor — he has again and again taken to the airwaves to scaremonger about the “harms” caused by respecting LGBTQ families and promote discrimination against them. After Obergefell, he publicly questioned the legitimacy of the federal courts he now wants to sit on and called the case “an abject failure” that “imperils civic peace.”

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