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.
40 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama, State of v. CardonaNo. 7:24-cv-00533 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 98 | |
| Andrew H. Warren v. Ron DeSantis | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Policing & criminal law | Procedural no direction | 47 |
| Anna Lange v. Houston County, Georgia | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 71 |
| Barr v. Tucker | S.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | 2 | |
| Benjamin v. OliverNo. 1:25-cv-04470 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | 61 | |
| Boe v. Marshall | M.D. Ala. | District | 11th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Family & parental rights | 1,215 | |
| Carl Charles v. Attorney General, State of AlabamaNo. 25-10973 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming care | 30 | |
| Chavez v. Credit Nation Auto Sales, Inc. | N.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 2014 | Employment | Mostly adverse | 6 |
| Corbitt v. Taylor(MHT) | M.D. Ala. | District | 11th Cir. | 2021 | Identity documents | Favorable | 3 |
| Darcy Corbitt v. Secretary of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2024 | Identity documents | Adverse | 14 |
| Dekker v. Weida | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1,052 |
| Denton v. Thrasher | N.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2020 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education | 2 | |
| Diamond v. Owens | M.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 2017 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 19 |
| Doe v. Ladapo | N.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Family & parental rights | Favorable | 447 |
| Drew Adams v. School Board of St. Johns County FloridaNo. 18-13592 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2018 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 22 |
| Equality Florida v. Florida State Board of Education | N.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2022 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections | 59 | |
| Faith Action Ministry Alliance, Inc. v. Fried | M.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Federal executive actions | 2 | |
| HM Florida-ORL, LLC v. DeSantis | M.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2023 | Drag & expressionalso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 87 |
| HM Florida-ORL, LLC v. Secretary of the Florida Department of Business and Profe | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | Drag & expressionalso Speech & religious objections | 1 | ||
| HM Florida-ORL, LLC v. Secretary of the Florida Department of Business and Professional RegulationNo. 23-12160 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2026 | Drag & expressionalso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 37 |
| In re: James EsseksNo. 24-11618 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming care | 5 | |
| In re: World Professional Association for Transgender HeaNo. 23-11753 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2023 | Gender-affirming care | 64 | |
| Jameka K. Evans v. Georgia Regional Hospital | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2019 | Employment | Mixed | 17 |
| January Littlejohn v. School Board of Leon County FloridaNo. 23-10385 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2023 | Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights | 141 | |
| Keohane v. Jones | N.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 40 |
| McMath v. Duval County Public Schools | M.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections | 2 | |
| Moore v. Three Rivers Regional Library SystemNo. 5:26-cv-01141 | S.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 2026 | 6 | ||
| Musgrove v. The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia | M.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 2 | |
| Naples Pride v. City of NaplesNo. 25-11756 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2025 | Drag & expressionalso Speech & religious objections | 3 | |
| Pascha Thomas v. City Schools of DecaturNo. 23-13467 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | 16 | |
| Paul Eknes-Tucker v. Governor of the State of AlabamaNo. 22-11707 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2022 | Gender-affirming carealso Family & parental rights | Adverse | 153 |
| Perez v. BroskieNo. 3:22-cv-00083 | M.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2022 | Family & parental rightsalso Schools & education | 40 | |
| Reiyn Keohane v. Florida Department of Corrections Secretary | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2020 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Robbin Amanda Bayse v. Ted Philbin | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Robert W. Otto v. City of Boca Raton, FloridaNo. 9:18-cv-80771 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2023 | Conversion therapyalso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 34 |
| Rush v. Johnson | N.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 1983 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 1 |
| Rush v. Parham | N.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 1977 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1 |
| Vandiver Elizabeth Glenn v. Sewell R. Brumby | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2009 | Employment | Favorable | 12 |
| Vazzo v. City of Tampa, Florida | M.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2019 | Conversion therapyalso Speech & religious objections | Adverse | 48 |
| Women in Struggle v. Bain | M.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2023 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Policing & criminal law | 3 |
40 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.