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.
35 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Council of Learned Societies v. EnglishNo. 26-1829 | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | 1 | ||
| Board of Education of the City School District of the City of New York v. United States Department of Education | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Federal executive actions | 112 | |
| Brooks v. Berg | N.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mostly adverse | 2 |
| Casillas v. Daines | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2008 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 36 |
| Center for Constitutional Rights v. United States Department of JusticeNo. 1:26-cv-01821 | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | 4 | |
| Clark v. Hanley | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2023 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 26 |
| Clark v. Valletta | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Coe v. BlancheNo. 26-1886 | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 28 | |
| Cruz v. Zucker | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2016 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Mostly favorable | 19 |
| Dale v. Department of DefenseNo. 1:26-cv-06617 | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | 19 | ||
| Donna McGrath Robert Jinks, A/K/A Tanya Jinks, A/K/A Tanya Medina, and Norbert Lopez, A/K/A Tara Lopez v. Toys "R" Us, Inc. | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2004 | Public accommodations | Procedural no direction | 3 |
| Emilee Carpenter, LLC v. JamesNo. 22-75 | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations | 30 | |
| Fabian v. Hospital of Central Connecticut | D. Conn. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2016 | Employment | Favorable | 4 |
| Federal Trade Commission v. Mount Sinai Hospitals Group, Inc.No. 1:26-mc-00532 | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | 4 | ||
| Fowlkes v. Ironworkers Local 40 | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2015 | Employment | Favorable | 3 |
| Gilbert Baker Foundation v. U.S. Department of InteriorNo. 1:26-cv-01317 | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | 9 | ||
| Gordon v. Aetna Life Insurance Co. | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | 8 | |
| John Andrew Cuoco v. Kenneth Moritsugu | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2000 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Locust Valley Central School District v. RosaNo. 2:25-cv-06937 | E.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2025 | 6 | ||
| Manago v. Barnhart | E.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2004 | Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1 |
| Marc Andrew Mario v. P & C Food Markets, Inc. | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2002 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 1 |
| Massapequa Union Free School District v. RosaNo. 2:25-cv-05892 | E.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2025 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education, Federal executive actions | 16 | |
| Mid Vermont Christian School v. Bouchey | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2024 | Athleticsalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections | 16 | |
| Mid Vermont Christian School v. Saunders | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2025 | Athleticsalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections | Adverse | 16 |
| Miles v. New York University | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 1997 | Schools & education | Favorable | 1 |
| New Hope Family Services, Inc. v. Poole | N.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2018 | Family & parental rightsalso Speech & religious objections | 2 | |
| Parents Defending Education v. Croton-Harmon Union Free School DistrictNo. 24-1900 | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections | 2 | |
| Powell v. Cusimano | D. Conn. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2004 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care | Adverse | 1 |
| Soule Ex Rel. Stanescu v. Connecticut Association of Schools, Inc.No. 21-1365 | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2021 | Athleticsalso Schools & education | Mostly adverse | 220 |
| State of New York v. United States Department of Health and Human ServicesNo. 19-4254 | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2019 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 11 | |
| Tikkun v. City of New York | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2010 | Policing & criminal lawalso Prisons & detention, Privacy & medical records | Favorable | 48 |
| Vitsaxaki v. Skaneateles Central School District | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights | 19 | |
| Volokh v. James | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objections | 83 | |
| Wayne Powell, as of the Estate of Dana Kimberly Devilla v. Sunny Schriver, Superintendent Thomas A. Coughlin, III C.O. Lynch C.O. Crowley | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | Privacy & medical recordsalso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 5 |
| Wuoti v. WintersNo. 2:24-cv-00614 | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2024 | Family & parental rightsalso Speech & religious objections | 17 |
35 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
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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.