Ed Yohnka, the ACLU’s director of communications and public policy, said the strongest momentum he sees carrying transgender rights forward comes from young people: “I was amazed, and it was really gratifying when we filed the Maday case last November, really quick we heard from a couple dozen students at Nova’s high school who just thought it was silly and said, ‘This isn’t an issue for us. We want Nova or anyone else to be who they are.’ That’s a really powerful thing for me. In large measure, it was these high school students taking it upon themselves to define the way they wanted the world to work for them.”