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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lindsay Hecox v. Bradley LittleNo. 1:20-cv-00184 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2020 | Athleticsalso Schools & education | Favorable | 181 |
| Luis Reyes-Reyes v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2004 | Immigration & asylum | Mostly favorable | 1 |
| M.F. v. San Dieguito Union High School DistrictNo. 3:26-cv-04737 | S.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 2 | ||
| McMahon v. World Vision Inc. | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2024 | Employmentalso Speech & religious objections | 1 | |
| Melissa Batie-Smoose v. The Board of Trustees of the California State UniversityNo. 2:25-cv-08957 | C.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Employmentalso Athletics | 3 | |
| Michelle-Lael Norsworthy v. Jeffrey Beard | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2015 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mixed | 6 |
| Mirabelli v. Olson | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Family & parental rightsalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections | Adverse | 210 |
| Moms for Liberty - Yolo County v. Yolo County | E.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objections | 2 | |
| Nancy Arabillas Morales v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2007 | Immigration & asylum | Mostly favorable | 4 |
| Olympus Spa v. Armstrong | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Public accommodationsalso Bathrooms & facilities, Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 15 |
| Oregon Prescription Drug Monitoring Program v. United States Drug Enforcement Administration | D. Or. | District | 9th Cir. | 2016 | Privacy & medical records | Favorable | 70 |
| Our Watch With Tim Thompson v. Bonta | E.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | Favorable | 13 |
| Parents for Privacy v. Dall. Sch. Dist. No. 2 | D. Or. | District | 9th Cir. | 2018 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Family & parental rights, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 1 |
| Perlot v. Green | D. Idaho | District | 9th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education | 2 | |
| Philip Rosati v. Dr. Igbinoso | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2015 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Poe, et al. v. Labrador, et al. | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Family & parental rights | 80 | |
| Port of Seattle v. BlancheNo. 2:26-cv-03301 | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 6 | ||
| Prescott v. Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego | S.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Mostly favorable | 7 |
| Pritchard, et al. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of IllinoisNo. 23-4331 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits, Speech & religious objections | Mixed | 20 |
| QueerDoc PLLC v. United States Department of Justice | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions | 37 | |
| Rachel Damiano v. Grants Pass School District No. 7 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | 18 | |
| Ramona HOLLOWAY, Appellant, v. ARTHUR ANDERSEN AND COMPANY, Appellee | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 1977 | Employment | Adverse | 1 |
| Ray v. Antioch Unified School District | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2000 | Schools & education | Mostly favorable | 1 |
| Roberts v. Clark County School District | D. Nev. | District | 9th Cir. | 2017 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 29 |
| Roberts v. Portland Public SchoolsNo. 3:26-cv-01680 | D. Or. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Family & parental rights | 8 | |
| Roe v. Johnston | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Identity documents | Adverse | 102 |
| Roe, et al. v. Critchfield, et al.No. 23-2807 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 8 |
| Ryan Karnoski v. Donald Trump | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2020 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 7 |
| S.D., et al. v. Reese, et al.No. 26-4872 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detention | 10 | |
| Salles v. National Institutes of HealthNo. 3:26-cv-10510 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 10 | ||
| San Francisco A.I.D.S. Foundation v. TrumpNo. 4:25-cv-01824 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Federal executive actionsalso Speech & religious objections | 142 | |
| Seattle Children's Hospital v. United States Department of Justice | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions | 29 | |
| Seawright v. LucasNo. 3:26-cv-03444 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 7 | ||
| Sexuality and Gender Alliance v. Critchfield | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | 170 | |
| Shilling v. United States of AmericaNo. 2:25-cv-00241 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | 284 | |
| Spicer v. Terhune | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2003 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| State of California v. United States Department of JusticeNo. 3:25-cv-04863 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 27 | ||
| State of Illinois v. United States Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentNo. 3:26-cv-02262 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 12 | ||
| State of Oregon v. KennedyNo. 6:25-cv-02409 | D. Or. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 75 | ||
| State of Washington v. United States Department of Health and Human ServicesNo. 6:25-cv-01748 | D. Or. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 45 | ||
| State of Washington, et al. v. Trump, et al. | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions | 84 | |
| Stephanie Lynne Brown v. Washington Interscholastic Activities AssociationNo. 3:26-cv-05616 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Athletics | 61 | |
| Stockman v. Trump | C.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2018 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 3 |
| Thakur v. TrumpNo. 3:25-cv-04737 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 294 | ||
| Thomas Horne v. USDC-AZT | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | Athleticsalso Schools & education | 1 | ||
| Toomey v. Arizona, State of | D. Ariz. | District | 9th Cir. | 2020 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 255 | |
| Transgender Law Center v. Ice | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2022 | Immigration & asylumalso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. IXL Learning, Inc | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | Employment | 12 | ||
| Union Gospel Mission of Yakima Washington v. Brown, et al.No. 24-7246 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Employment | 30 | |
| United States v. California Interscholastic FederationNo. 8:25-cv-01485 | C.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 34 |
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.
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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.