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.
105 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adree Edmo v. Corizon, Inc. | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| Allard v. Gomez | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 4 |
| Anita Green v. Miss United States of America | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Public accommodationsalso Speech & religious objections | Adverse | 3 |
| Aurora Regino v. Kelly Staley | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights | Adverse | 32 |
| Avendano-Hernandez v. Lynch | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2015 | Immigration & asylum | Favorable | 18 |
| Bates v. Pakseresht, et al.No. 23-4169 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Family & parental rights | Adverse | 28 |
| Board of Trustees of the California State University v. United States Department of EducationNo. 5:26-cv-01970 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Athleticsalso Schools & education, Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 10 | |
| Brian Tingley v. Robert Ferguson | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2022 | Conversion therapyalso Speech & religious objections | 18 | |
| Brown v. Alaska Airlines IncNo. 2:22-cv-00668 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2022 | Employmentalso Speech & religious objections | 31 | |
| Buckingham v. Federal Bureau of PrisonsNo. 2:25-cv-00701 | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Federal executive actions | 22 | |
| California Nurses Association v. MullinNo. 4:26-cv-10680 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 112 | ||
| California Tribal Families Coalition v. Azar | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2022 | Family & parental rightsalso Federal executive actions | Adverse | 42 |
| California Tribal Families Coalition v. Xavier Becerra | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | Family & parental rightsalso Federal executive actions | 3 | ||
| Castaneda v. Oregon Department of EducationNo. 3:25-cv-01170 | D. Or. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 3 | ||
| Chandler v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 61 |
| City & County of San Francisco v. Alex Azar, IINo. 20-15398 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2020 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 9 | |
| City of Fresno v. NoemNo. 3:26-cv-01535 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 15 | ||
| City of Fresno v. TurnerNo. 3:25-cv-07070 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 123 | ||
| City of Huntington Beach, et al. v. Newsom, et al.No. 25-3826 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights | 18 | |
| City of Salem v. MullinNo. 6:26-cv-01340 | D. Or. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 7 | ||
| City of Seattle, et al. v. Trump, et al.No. 26-5553 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 1 | ||
| City of Shoreline v. United States Department of TransportationNo. 2:26-cv-01311 | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 10 | ||
| County of Santa Clara v. NoemNo. 3:25-cv-08330 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 181 | ||
| DeGross v. Hunter | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Family & parental rights | 2 | |
| Doe v. Balaam | D. Nev. | District | 9th Cir. | 2007 | Prisons & detentionalso Policing & criminal law | Adverse | 1 |
| Doe v. University Of Idaho | D. Idaho | District | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Schools & education | 2 | |
| Douglas W. Schwenk v. James Hartford Steve Sinclair Robert Mitchell,opinion | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2000 | Prisons & detention | Mixed | 1 |
| Duckett v. GarciaNo. 25-4969 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Prisons & detention | 1 | |
| Duronslet v. County of Los Angeles | C.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2017 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Family & parental rights | Mixed | 2 |
| Edmo v. Idaho Dep't of Corr. | D. Idaho | District | 9th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Elizabeth Hunter v. USEDUNo. 23-35174 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | Adverse | 23 |
| F.V. v. Barron | D. Idaho | District | 9th Cir. | 2018 | Identity documents | Favorable | 1 |
| Fischer v. Washington Department of CorrectionsNo. 3:26-cv-06011 | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detention | 1 | |
| Geovanni Hernandez-Montiel v. Immigration and Naturalization Service | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2000 | Immigration & asylum | Favorable | 1 |
| Gottschalk v. City & County of San Francisco | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2013 | Employment | Adverse | 5 |
| Helen Doe v. Thomas HorneNo. 23-16026 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Athleticsalso Schools & education | Favorable | 29 |
| Hennessy-Waller v. Snyder | D. Ariz. | District | 9th Cir. | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 108 |
| Housing Authority of the County of San Diego v. TurnerNo. 4:25-cv-08859 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 67 | ||
| Imperial Sovereign Court of the State of Montana v. Knudsen | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Drag & expressionalso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 113 |
| International Partners For Ethical Care Inc, et al. v. Ferguson, et al.No. 24-3661 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Family & parental rightsalso Gender-affirming care, Housing & shelters | Favorable | 6 |
| Jane Anne Leyland v. Verne Orr, Secretary of the Air Force, James F. Egbert, Commander, United States Air Reserve Personnel Center, and James E. Christman, Surgeon, United States Air Reserve Personnel Center | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 1987 | Military | Adverse | 2 |
| Jessica Tapia v. Jurupa Unified School District | C.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | 13 | |
| John Doe v. Jami Snyder | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2022 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Mostly adverse | 4 |
| Jones v. Critchfield | D. Idaho | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education | 2 | |
| Joslin v. U.S. Department of the InteriorNo. 1:26-cv-02029 | E.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 39 | ||
| Kastl v. Maricopa County Community College District | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2009 | Employmentalso Schools & education, Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 2 |
| King County v. TurnerNo. 2:25-cv-00814 | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 361 | ||
| L.B. v. Premera Blue Cross | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | 43 | |
| Leontiev v. Corbett Sch. Dist. | D. Or. | District | 9th Cir. | 2018 | Family & parental rightsalso Schools & education | Favorable | 2 |
| Lexis Hernandez Avilez v. Merrick Garland | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Immigration & asylum | Adverse | 1 |
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.