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.
41 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Association of University Professors v. AlbrittonNo. 4:26-cv-06268 | S.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections | 20 | |
| Baker v. Aetna Life Insurance Co. | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2017 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Mostly adverse | 16 |
| Braidwood Management v. EEOCNo. 22-10145 | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Employment | Mostly adverse | 16 |
| Brandon v. Sage Corp. | W.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Employment | Mostly adverse | 83 |
| Broussard v. First Tower Loan, LLC | E.D. La. | District | 5th Cir. | 2017 | Employment | Mostly adverse | 14 |
| Carroll Independent School District v. United States Department of Education | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Federal executive actions | 15 | |
| Doe v. McConn | S.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 1980 | Drag & expressionalso Gender-affirming care, Policing & criminal law | Favorable | 1 |
| Dr. James Dobson Family Institute v. Becerra | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Health coverage & benefits, Federal executive actions | 2 | |
| Eure v. Sage Corp. | W.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2014 | Employment | Adverse | 3 |
| Federal Trade Commission v. World Professional Association for Transgender Health, Inc. | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions | 99 | |
| Fox v. City Of Austin | W.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Employment | 2 | |
| Franciscan Alliance v. Becerra | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Health coverage & benefits, Federal executive actions | Adverse | 4 |
| Franciscan Alliance, Inc. v. Burwell | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Health coverage & benefits, Federal executive actions | Adverse | 185 |
| GSA Network v. Houston Independent School DistrictNo. 4:25-cv-04090 | S.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections | 56 | |
| Haverkamp v. Linthicum | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 4 |
| Lopez v. River Oaks Imaging & Diagnostic Group, Inc. | S.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2008 | Employment | Favorable | 4 |
| M.K. v. Pearl River Cty Sch Dist | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & education | Procedural no direction | 2 |
| McComb Childrens Clinic, LTD. v. FinkNo. 5:24-cv-00048 | S.D. Miss. | District | 5th Cir. | 2024 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care, Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 23 | |
| Neese v. BecerraNo. 23-10078 | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2023 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 50 |
| Nicole Wittmer v. Phillips 66 Company | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2019 | Employment | Adverse | 3 |
| Olivarez v. T-Mobile USA | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2021 | Employment | Adverse | 1 |
| Praylor v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2005 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 4 |
| Raegan Kelly Kirkpatrick v. Seligman & Latz, Inc. And Associated Dry Goods Corporation, D/B/A Robinson's Florida | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 1981 | Employment | Adverse | 3 |
| Rapides Parish v. Health & Human Services | W.D. La. | District | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Federal executive actionsalso Schools & education, Health coverage & benefits | 2 | |
| Rims Barber v. Phil Bryant | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2017 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Family & parental rights, Public accommodations | Adverse | 2 |
| Santos-Zacaria v. Garland | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Immigration & asylum | Adverse | 2 |
| School Board Rapides Parish v. Education | W.D. La. | District | 5th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 3 | |
| Scott Gibson v. Bryan Collier | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Spectrum WT v. WendlerNo. 23-10994 | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2023 | Drag & expressionalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 175 |
| Speech First v. McCall | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education | Adverse | 2 |
| State of Louisiana v. EDUCNo. 24-30399 | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 38 | |
| State of Texas v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2022 | Employmentalso Gender-affirming care, Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | Adverse | 23 |
| State of Texas v. KennedyNo. 24-40568 | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2024 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | 5 | |
| Texas A&M Queer Empowerment v. MahomesNo. 25-20108 | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Drag & expressionalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections | 13 | |
| Texas American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers v. CreightonNo. 3:26-cv-01845 | W.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections | 11 | |
| U.S. Pastor Council v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2021 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Employment | Mostly adverse | 100 |
| Umphress v. Hall | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objections | 1 | |
| United States v. Norman Varner | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2020 | Identity documentsalso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Woodlands Pride v. PaxtonNo. 23-20480 | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Drag & expressionalso Speech & religious objections | 42 | |
| Young v. Adams | W.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2012 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 6 |
| Zollicoffer v. Livingston | S.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2017 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 5 |
41 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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Archive stats
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.