IF THE SUIT FITS

AT A SMALL tailor shop in Brooklyn, Gavin Grimm emerges from behind a wooden screen in a brand new charcoal-gray suit and fastens the last button on his crisp white dress shirt. Grimm, a 17-year-old transgender high school senior, flew in from his home in rural Virginia for the fitting; he needed new threads to wear to an upcoming Supreme Court hearing. He surveys his reflection in a towering mirror. “It fits,” he says with a smile, noting how the cut of the ensemble hides the curve of his hips and broadens his shoulders.

“It does look really good,” says his lawyer Chase Strangio, who has been poring over documents on a laptop perched atop an ironing board. Strangio