Lauren Adams Bone, of Adams Bone Law and formerly with Jackson Bone Law, is a lawyer and especially anti-trans women’s rights activist. She has written multiple amicus briefs, provided expert testimony for anti-trans court cases, and represents the Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) in a case against trans women in women’s prisons in California. She co-authored the model legislation “Women’s Bill of Rights”. 

There are factual reasons why the sexes are allowed by law to be treated differently in certain situations: differences in physical abilities; unequal reproductive burdens; risk of violent crime perpetration (men commit 90+% of violent crime including rape and homicide). All three of those are relevant to the need for single-sex spaces, and none change because a man identifies as a woman.

Bone's Testimony in Favor of Senate Bill 180, 15 February 2023

Education and Career

According to her LinkedIn page, Lauren Adams Bone earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison where she studied Political Science, Environmental Studies, and African Studies (2005-2009). She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School (2011-2014) and a Master Certificate in Project Management from the Wisconsin School of Business (2019). 

She was the programming staff and staff supervisor for the University of Wisconsin, Madison’s multicultural student center (2006-2009), registrar with COA Youth and Family Services in Milwaukee (2007-2008), legal intern for Legal Action of Wisconsin, Inc (2012), judicial intern with the Dane County Circuit Court (2012), residential coordinator with CCLS, Inc. (2010-2013), legal intern with ABC for Health, Inc. (2013), a student advocate at a restraining order clinic (2013-2014), an intern and volunteer attorney for End Domestic Abuse in Wisconsin (2014), a compliance advisor with Cisco (2015-2016) and project manager with Cisco (2016-2020). 

She was the Legal Director at WoLF (2020-2022), partner at Jackson Bone LLP (2022-2023), and is currently with Adams Bone Law (2023).

Platform and Affiliations

In her current position with Adams Bone Law, as with her former firm, Jackson Bone Law (site now private) where she partnered with lawyer and anti-trans activist Candice Jackson, Lauren Adams Bone works with the non-profit anti-trans organization WoLF on cases alleging that the acceptance of transgender women, especially in single sex spaces, is harmful to cisgender women and girls. Lauren Adams Bone is associated with right wing and anti-trans organizations such as The Federalist Society and the Independent Women’s Forum. According to her firm’s website, she co-authored the “Women’s Bill of Rights” with Independent Women’s Voice, a sister organization of the Independent Women’s Forum.

Legal Impact and Court Cases

Adams Bone Law is involved with Chandler vs. CDCR, a lawsuit filed by WoLF challenging a California Law that allows trans women to be housed in women's prisons. Lauren Adams Bone was also involved with Kiefel vs. Ruff while partnered with Jackson Bone LLP, a lawsuit against two counselors who signed-off on top surgery for a detransitioned woman who regretted the decision to have the surgery. As listed on her firm’s website, she has also written multiple amicus briefs and provided testimony for cases primarily focused on keeping trans women out of women’s only spaces. In February 2023 she provided testimony for SB 180 in Kansas to establish a women’s bill of rights, which would specifically define women by biological characteristics, functionally separating trans women from that definition.

Further resources:

• Adams Bone Law
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Transgender Map