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.
22 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A.No. 2:25-mc-01069 | W.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2025 | 91 | ||
| A.H. v. Minersville Area Sch. Dist. | M.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2020 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 7 |
| Christopher Shorter v. United States | 3rd Cir. | Circuit | 3rd Cir. | 2021 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| DeTore v. Local 245 of Jersey City Public Employees Union | D.N.J. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2024 | Employment | Adverse | 2 |
| Dobre v. National RR Passenger Corp.(AMTRAK) | E.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 1993 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 1 |
| Doe ex rel. Doe v. Boyertown Area School District | 3rd Cir. | Circuit | 3rd Cir. | 2022 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 35 |
| Evancho v. Pine-Richland School District | W.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2017 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Mostly favorable | 5 |
| Farmer v. Carlson | M.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 1988 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Faulkner v. Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories Environment Testing, LLCNo. 5:26-cv-07493 | E.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2026 | 1 | ||
| In re: 2025 UPMC Subpoena | 3rd Cir. | Circuit | 3rd Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 36 | |
| Jane Doe v. Hollidaysburg Area School DistrictNo. 3:26-cv-01142 | W.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2026 | Schools & education | 4 | |
| Johnston v. University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education | W.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2015 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 5 |
| Landerer v. Dover Area School DistrictNo. 1:24-cv-00566 | M.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2024 | Family & parental rightsalso Schools & education | 9 | |
| Lema v. DavenportNo. 3:26-cv-04682 | D.N.J. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights | 13 | |
| Moms for Liberty v. School District of the Chathams Board of EducationNo. 2:26-cv-10863 | D.N.J. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights | 2 | |
| Morrison v. City of PhiladelphiaNo. 2:26-cv-08114 | E.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2026 | 1 | ||
| National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association v. Kennedy, Jr.No. 1:26-cv-01684 | M.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2026 | 30 | ||
| Parts v. Swarthmore CollegeNo. 2:25-cv-04702 | E.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2025 | 13 | ||
| Wolfe v. Horn | E.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2001 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mixed | 1 |
| Wood v. C.G. Studios, Inc. | E.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 1987 | Employment | Adverse | 1 |
| Yukich v. Premier Fencing ClubNo. 2:25-cv-18011 | D.N.J. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2025 | 99 | ||
| Zachary Greenberg v. Jerry M. Lehocky | 3rd Cir. | Circuit | 3rd Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objections | 1 |
22 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.