Litigation
Court cases in the project's archive about laws and policies that affect transgender and other LGBTQ+ people. Each case page links its dockets, its court documents, its opinions and any oral arguments, with the originals on CourtListener. Charts show the cases by issue, year, court and place.
Also: a finding aid to experts who testified for the side defending the laws.
42 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Board of Education of Jefferson County School District RE-1 v. McMahonNo. 1:26-cv-03427 | D. Colo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2026 | Federal executive actionsalso Schools & education, Bathrooms & facilities, Athletics | 23 | |
| Bridge v. Oklahoma State Department of Education | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 97 |
| Camp Id-Ra-Ha-Je Association v. Roy | D. Colo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Bathrooms & facilities | 2 | |
| Chiles v. SalazarNo. 23-1002 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2024 | Conversion therapyalso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 26 |
| Committee of Five, Inc. v. SullivanNo. 1:25-cv-01668 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations | 28 | |
| Darren Patterson Christian Academy v. Roy | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education | 12 | |
| Defending Education v. SullivanNo. 1:25-cv-01572 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations | 43 | |
| Department of Justice Administrative Subpoena No. 25-1431-030 | D. Colo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 63 | |
| Dimarco v. WYDOC Women's Center | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2007 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Doxa Enterprises v. SullivanNo. 26-1104 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2026 | Public accommodationsalso Speech & religious objections | 2 | |
| Druley v. Patton | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2015 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Equal Emp't Opportunity Comm'n v. A & E Tire, Inc. | D. Colo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2018 | Employment | Favorable | 1 |
| Estate of DiMarco v. Wyoming Department of Corrections, Division of Prisons | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2004 | Prisons & detention | Mixed | 5 |
| Etsitty v. Utah Transit Authority | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2007 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 1 |
| Farmer v. Perrill | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2002 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Fowler v. Stitt | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2024 | Identity documents | Mostly favorable | 24 |
| Gays Against Groomers v. Garcia | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2026 | Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 5 |
| Goodspeed v. Wyoming Governor | D. Wyo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2018 | Speech & religious objections | 3 | |
| Griffith v. El Paso County, Colorado | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 65 |
| James v. Ranch Mart Hardware, Inc. | D. Kan. | District | 10th Cir. | 1995 | Employment | Adverse | 1 |
| Johnson v. Sanders | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 6 |
| Josephine Brown v. Aristedes Zavaras, Robert Furlong | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 1995 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mixed | 1 |
| Kansas, State of v. United States Department of Education | D. Kan. | District | 10th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Athletics, Federal executive actions | 4 | |
| Lamb v. Maschner | D. Kan. | District | 10th Cir. | 1986 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Lamb v. Norwood | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Lee v. Poudre School District R-1 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Family & parental rightsalso Schools & education | Favorable | 9 |
| Masterpiece Cakeshop Incorporated v. ElenisNo. 1:18-cv-02074 | D. Colo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2018 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations | 36 | |
| Oakleaf v. Martinez | D.N.M. | District | 10th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Poe v. DrummondNo. 23-5110 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Family & parental rights | Adverse | 23 |
| Rios v. Redding | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2022 | Prisons & detention | 4 | |
| Southern Utah Drag Stars v. City of St. George | D. Utah | District | 10th Cir. | 2023 | Drag & expressionalso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 30 |
| Speech First v. Shrum | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education | 9 | |
| State of Kansas v. EDUCNo. 24-3097 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Athletics, Federal executive actions | 61 | |
| Stefanick v. Uinta County School District Number OneNo. 1:26-cv-00330 | D. Wyo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2026 | 11 | ||
| Supre v. Ricketts | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 1986 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| United States v. Southeastern Oklahoma State University | W.D. Okla. | District | 10th Cir. | 2017 | Employmentalso Schools & education | 61 | |
| United States v. USD 500 Kansas City, KansasNo. 2:26-cv-02519 | D. Kan. | District | 10th Cir. | 2026 | 2 | ||
| Wailes v. Jefferson County Public SchoolsNo. 25-1341 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | 17 | |
| Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2026 | Public accommodations | 18 | |
| Willey v. Sweetwater County School District No 1 Board of TrusteesNo. 25-8027 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | 16 | |
| Zzyym v. Kerry | D. Colo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2021 | Identity documents | Mostly favorable | 62 |
| Zzyym v. Pompeo | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2020 | Identity documents | Favorable | 3 |
42 cases
Each case has one main issue and may raise others (shown as “also”); the Issue filter finds a case by either. Choose a column heading to sort by it, and again to reverse the order. A blank cell means the archive has no entry for that case yet.
The outcome is this project's own coding of how a case turned out, made from the court's record; it is not the court's finding. How it is coded, and how to ask for a correction, is on the About page.
Litigation
Court cases about transgender and other LGBTQ+ people · federal & state courts
Cases tracked
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Docs |
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Cases by issue
Every tracked case once, under its main issue, split by the coded direction of its final ruling (the same reading as "Reached a final ruling" below): favorable or adverse to the LGBTQ-rights claim, or mixed. The empty part of each bar is cases with no coded ruling at the trial, circuit or Supreme Court stage yet, which is most of them; it is not a claim that they have no outcome. Choose a bar to list its cases.
Reached a final ruling
The coded direction at the HIGHEST stage a case reached — trial-level, circuit-court or Supreme Court only. A preliminary-injunction ruling never counts as final, and a "procedural, no direction" or "unclear" coding is excluded rather than shown as an outcome.
Case duration
Filed to terminated, from real CourtListener docket dates, among cases where EVERY tracked docket has terminated (an open appellate docket alongside a closed district one is pending, not resolved). No stage-by-stage date exists in this corpus, so only this one span is shown; dates cover only the tracked-docket tier — see the coverage note below the numbers.
Cases by circuit
A real geographic map, states shaded by their circuit's case count relative to the busiest circuit (linear). The Federal Circuit has no state territory of its own (its jurisdiction is subject matter, not geography) and so never paints here, but still appears in the list and the table. Select a circuit below for its final-ruling mix.