Aimee Stephens, the plaintiff at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court’s first case involving transgender rights, has died at 59.
Stephens’s case was argued before SCOTUS with two other LGBTQ rights cases in October, but the court has not yet ruled. Stephens’s death will not affect the case’s status. RELATED: SCOTUS to Hear Arguments on Whether it’s Legal to Fire Someone for Being Gay or Transgender The New York Times reports: “She died from complications related to kidney failure, according to