Aimee Stephens, in wheelchair, with her wife Donna outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in October 2019. (Photo by Allison Shelley) Aimee Stephens, the transgender woman whose landmark case was the first case addressing transgender civil rights to be heard by the U.S.
Supreme Court, died today (Tuesday, May 12) following a lengthy battle with diabetes. Family friends announced last week that Stephens had gone into hospice care at home after her conditioned worsened.