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.
46 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Academy of Pediatrics v. Federal Trade Commission | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 44 | |
| American Academy of Pediatrics v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Federal executive actionsalso Gender-affirming care, Speech & religious objections | Mostly favorable | 23 |
| Black v. Kendig | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2002 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 1 |
| Cable News Network, Inc. v. TrumpNo. 1:26-cv-03287 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | 140 | ||
| Carter v. District of Columbia | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2023 | Employment | Adverse | 10 |
| Council for Global Equality v. U.S. Department of StateNo. 1:25-cv-02615 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Federal executive actions | 4 | |
| Crouch v. Bowser | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Policing & criminal law | Favorable | 2 |
| Doctors for America v. Office of Personnel Management | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Federal executive actions | Mostly favorable | 139 |
| Doe v. District of Columbia | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2016 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Doe v. KuporNo. 1:26-cv-02723 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | 2 | ||
| Doe v. Mattis | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2018 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 2 |
| Doe v. McHenry | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | Unclear | 2 |
| Doe v. Trump | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 137 |
| Driever v. United States of America | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2020 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| Endocrine Society v. Federal Trade Commission | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 45 | |
| Erika S. v. O'Malley | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2024 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care | Favorable | 1 |
| Farmer v. Hawk-Sawyer | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 1998 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 16 |
| Farmer, Dee v. Moritsugu, Kenneth | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 1998 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Hari v. Federal Bureau of PrisonsNo. 1:25-cv-04322 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | 1 | ||
| Hennepin County, Minnesota v. U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesNo. 1:26-cv-02460 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | 40 | ||
| In Re: Subpoenas Served On | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2023 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 1 |
| Jane Doe 2 v. Patrick Shanahan | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2019 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Adverse | 1 |
| Jane Doe v. Todd Blanche | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | Mostly adverse | 336 |
| Jansen v. Trump | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Identity documentsalso Federal executive actions | Adverse | 37 |
| Jones v. Trump | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 53 |
| Kingdom v. Trump | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 302 |
| National Urban League v. Trump | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Federal executive actionsalso Speech & religious objections | Adverse | 3 |
| Navarrete v. Whole Foods | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Employment | Adverse | 4 |
| Nicolas Talbott v. United States | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Adverse | 90 |
| Palacios v. Medstar Health, Inc. | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Mixed | 3 |
| Pickup v. Biden | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2022 | Other | 2 | |
| Pinson v. United States Department of Justice | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2022 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mixed | 8 |
| Poe v. U.S. Department of JusticeNo. 1:26-cv-01552 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | 14 | ||
| Richardson v. Dist. of Columbia | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2018 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Richardson v. Smith | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2024 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 9 |
| Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights v. McMahon | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Federal executive actionsalso Gender-affirming care, Immigration & asylum | Mostly favorable | 23 |
| Schroer v. Billington | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2009 | Employment | Favorable | 185 |
| Shaw v. District of Columbia | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2016 | Policing & criminal lawalso Prisons & detention | Mostly adverse | 3 |
| Talbott v. Trump | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 426 |
| Trainor v. United States of AmericaNo. 1:26-cv-03029 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | 8 | ||
| Transgender Law Center v. United States Immigration & Customs Enforcement | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Immigration & asylumalso Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 2 |
| Underwood v. Archer Management Services, Inc. | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 1994 | Employment | Mixed | 1 |
| Whitman-Walker Clinic, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2021 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care, Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | Mostly adverse | 2 |
| Withrow v. United States of AmericaNo. 1:25-cv-04073 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 60 | |
| Wittkowski v. Levine | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| World Professional Association for Transgender Health v. Federal Trade Commission | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 116 |
46 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.