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.

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27 of 664 cases match.

Cases
Case	Court	Level	Cir.	Year	Issue / type	Outcome	Documents
Bridge v. Oklahoma State Department of Education	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2026	Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities	Adverse	97
Chiles v. SalazarNo. 23-1002	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2024	Conversion therapyalso Speech & religious objections	Favorable	26
Committee of Five, Inc. v. SullivanNo. 1:25-cv-01668	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2025	Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations		28
Darren Patterson Christian Academy v. Roy	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2023	Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education		12
Defending Education v. SullivanNo. 1:25-cv-01572	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2025	Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations		43
Dimarco v. WYDOC Women's Center	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2007	Prisons & detention	Adverse	1
Doxa Enterprises v. SullivanNo. 26-1104	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2026	Public accommodationsalso Speech & religious objections		2
Druley v. Patton	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2015	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	1
Estate of DiMarco v. Wyoming Department of Corrections, Division of Prisons	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2004	Prisons & detention	Mixed	5
Etsitty v. Utah Transit Authority	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2007	Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities	Adverse	1
Farmer v. Perrill	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2002	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	2
Fowler v. Stitt	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2024	Identity documents	Mostly favorable	24
Gays Against Groomers v. Garcia	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2026	Speech & religious objections	Favorable	5
Griffith v. El Paso County, Colorado	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2025	Prisons & detention	Mostly favorable	65
Johnson v. Sanders	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2024	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	6
Josephine Brown v. Aristedes Zavaras, Robert Furlong	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	1995	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Mixed	1
Lamb v. Norwood	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2018	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	2
Lee v. Poudre School District R-1	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2025	Family & parental rightsalso Schools & education	Favorable	9
Poe v. DrummondNo. 23-5110	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2025	Gender-affirming carealso Family & parental rights	Adverse	23
Rios v. Redding	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2022	Prisons & detention		4
Speech First v. Shrum	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2023	Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education		9
State of Kansas v. EDUCNo. 24-3097	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2024	Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Athletics, Federal executive actions		61
Supre v. Ricketts	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	1986	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	2
Wailes v. Jefferson County Public SchoolsNo. 25-1341	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2025	Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights		17
Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2026	Public accommodations		18
Willey v. Sweetwater County School District No 1 Board of TrusteesNo. 25-8027	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2025	Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights		16
Zzyym v. Pompeo	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2020	Identity documents	Favorable	3

27 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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Every case in the corpus. Click a case name for its overview; click any column to sort, again to reverse. Each case has one main issue and may raise others (shown as "also…"); the Issue filter finds a case by either. Issues were checked case by case in September 2026. Level, circuit and outcome come from the coded caselaw dataset, so some rows are blank where a case hasn't been coded yet.

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Direct counts from the archive index — instant and exact. Counts are FILINGS (docket entries); the distinct-case figure is shown alongside.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Table view (stages, durations and circuits)

Expert witnesses

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A curated roster of the recurring expert witnesses in this litigation, with every declaration, expert report, affidavit, deposition and trial-testimony document the corpus holds for each, grouped by case. Coverage is limited by what has been pulled: expert material is heavily attachment-borne, so a witness who testified in ten cases may show fewer here, and some documents are marked in a larger filing — the testimony sits inside an appendix or exhibit set rather than as its own entry.

Judges

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The record counts how the judge voted, not how the case came out. Dissents and concurrences are parsed from the opinions themselves ("NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge, dissenting"), so a judge who dissented is scored against the panel's result — without that, Judge Niemeyer read 4–3 favorable to trans claimants. Partial dissents are shown but left out of the tally. Votes come from separate-writing headings and from the opinion's own joinder block ("Judge Richardson wrote a dissenting opinion, in which Judge Wilkinson, Judge Niemeyer… joined"), so a judge who joins a dissent without writing one still counts. Judges are resolved to real people against the Federal Judicial Center directory using the deciding court — there are 32 federal judges named Smith, and two Judge Pryors on the Eleventh Circuit. 195 ambiguous name/court pairs were dropped rather than merged, and a case with no opinion text in the corpus keeps the panel result for want of anything better. Small numbers are small numbers: three rulings is not a tendency.