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.
47 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A.C. v. Fred Kutruff | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2023 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 1 |
| A.C. v. Metropolitan School District of MartinsvilleNo. 25-1094 | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Athletics | Favorable | 37 |
| A.M. v. Indianapolis Public Schools | S.D. Ind. | District | 7th Cir. | 2022 | Athleticsalso Schools & education | 20 | |
| American Academy of Pediatrics v. James Uthmeier | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 34 |
| Ashton Whitaker v. Kenosha Unified School Distri | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2017 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 4 |
| B. Braxton/Obed-Edom v. City of New York | S.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2019 | Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 1 |
| B. E. v. Vigo County School Corporation | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2023 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 14 |
| Boyden v. Conlin | W.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Mostly favorable | 28 |
| Chicago Housing Authority v. TurnerNo. 1:25-cv-12670 | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2025 | 11 | ||
| Chicago v. NoemNo. 1:25-cv-12765 | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2025 | 64 | ||
| City of Chicago v. Department of JusticeNo. 1:25-cv-13863 | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2025 | 28 | ||
| Dee Farmer v. Richard Haas, Edward J. Brennan, and L.E. Dubois | U.S. Supreme Court | U.S. Supreme Court | 7th Cir. | 1993 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Doe v. Community Unit School District 300No. 1:26-cv-05388 | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights | 1 | |
| Doe v. Holcomb | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2018 | Identity documentsalso Immigration & asylum | Adverse | 1 |
| Fields v. Smith | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2011 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| Flack v. Wis. Dept. of Health Servs. | W.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1 |
| Freedom v. Chicago Womens Basketball Operations LLCNo. 1:26-cv-10686 | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2026 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Athletics, Public accommodations | 2 | |
| Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2018 | Employment | Favorable | 9 |
| Iglesias v. True | S.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 216 |
| J.A.W. v. Evansville Vanderburgh Sch. Corp. | S.D. Ind. | District | 7th Cir. | 2019 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 5 |
| Janay Garrick v. Moody Bible Institute | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2024 | Employmentalso Speech & religious objections | 53 | |
| Jane Doe v. Mukwonago Area School District | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 17 |
| Janiah Monroe v. Steven Bowman | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 13 |
| John Balsewicz v. Jonathan Pawlyk | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2021 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 9 |
| John Kluge v. Brownsburg Community School CorporationNo. 24-1942 | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | Mostly adverse | 34 |
| K.C. v. Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | Adverse | 120 |
| Karen Frances ULANE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. EASTERN AIRLINES, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Defendant-Appellant | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 1984 | Employment | Adverse | 2 |
| Konitzer v. Frank | E.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2010 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 1 |
| Koschnick v. EversNo. 2:26-cv-00833 | E.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2026 | Conversion therapyalso Speech & religious objections | 29 | |
| Lavarita D. Meriwether v. Gordon H. Faulkner | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 1987 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Marissa Darlingh v. Adria Maddaleni | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | Favorable | 2 |
| Mark A. Campbell v. Kevin Kallas | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2020 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 21 |
| McCord v. South Madison Community School Corporation | S.D. Ind. | District | 7th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | 2 | |
| Michelle Fitzgerald v. Roncalli High School, Inc. | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2023 | Employmentalso Speech & religious objections | 1 | |
| New Richmond Parents for Strong Schools, UA v. School District of New Richmond Board of EducationNo. 3:26-cv-00316 | W.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2026 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education | 26 | |
| Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School District, Wisconsin | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | Favorable | 5 |
| Roy Mitchell v. Edward Wall | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2015 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 2 |
| Roy Mitchell, Jr. v. Kevin Kallas | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 18 |
| Star v. Gramley | C.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 1993 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Students and Parents for Privacy v. United States Department of Educat | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 20 | ||
| Students and Parents for Privacy v. United States Department of Education | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2016 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 1 |
| Sundstrom v. Frank | E.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2011 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 11 |
| Tasha S. Maggert v. Craig A. Hanks | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 1997 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Torres v. National Precision Blanking | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 1996 | Employment | Procedural no direction | 1 |
| U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Rent-A-Center East, Inc. | C.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2018 | Employment | Favorable | 20 |
| United States v. Jason Price | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2023 | Policing & criminal lawalso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Whitaker ex rel. Whitaker v. Kenosha Unified School District No. 1 Board of Education | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2016 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Procedural no direction | 41 |
47 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.