Ezra Young is a nationally recognized civil rights attorney based in New York City. Ezra’s work centers on trans rights, with a focus on rights of recognition, employment protections, and health care and insurance coverage issues. Ezra has represented trans clients in several ground-breaking Title VII cases, including, Jamal v. Saks (S.D. Tex.), Chavez v. Credit Nation Auto Sales (11th Cir.), EEOC v. Lakeland Eye Clinic (M.D. Fla.), EEOC and Brittany Austin v. Deluxe Financial Services (D. Minn.), Schawe-Lane and Lane v. Amazon.com.KYDC  LLC (E.D.Ky.), United States and Rachel Tudor v. Southeastern Oklahoma State University et al. (W.D. Okla. and 10th Cir.), and Texas et al. v. United States et al. and Rachel Tudor (5th Cir.), and Darin B. v. OPM (EEOC 2017). In November 2017, Ezra served as lead trial counsel in the nation’s first transgender sex discrimination federal jury trial, ultimately securing a historic $1.165 damages award. Ezra  has also represented transgender patients in insurance appeals cases, including Lauderdale v. Unitedhealthcare (HHS 2016), the first case in which the Medicare Appeals Council ordered a health plan to cover vaginal reconstruction surgery for a transgender woman. Ezra currently serves on the board of the Jim Collins Foundation and was a founding board member and is an immediate past co-chair of the National Trans Bar Association. Ezra received his BA in Philosophy from Cornell University and his JD from Columbia Law School. While a law student, Ezra served as Executive Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law and Online & Consulting Editor of the Columbia Journal of Race and Law. From 2012 to 2014, Ezra was a Post Doctoral Scholar at Columbia Law School, focusing on trans rights, Critical Race Theory, and intersectionality. Ezra’s studies were supervised by renowned scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw. Concurrently, Ezra served as research director of the Columbia Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies and legal director of the African American Policy Forum. From 2014 to 2016, Ezra served as an associate at a small plaintiffs’ side firm. From mid-2016 through mid-2017, Ezra served as director of impact litigation at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. Ezra currently maintains a boutique private practice.