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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13 of 664 cases match.

Cases
Case	Court	Level	Cir.	Year	Issue / type	Outcome	Documents
Brittany Tovar v. Essentia Health	1st Cir.	Circuit	1st Cir.	2022	Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits	Mostly favorable	8
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Kennedy	1st Cir.	Circuit	1st Cir.	2025	Federal executive actionsalso Gender-affirming care	Mostly favorable	28
de la Fuente Diaz v. Gonzalez ColonNo. 25-1638	1st Cir.	Circuit	1st Cir.	2025	Identity documents		25
Foote v. Ludlow School CommitteeNo. 23-1069	1st Cir.	Circuit	1st Cir.	2023	Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights	Favorable	68
In Re: Administrative Subpoena No. 25-1431-019	1st Cir.	Circuit	1st Cir.	2026	Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records		66
In Re: Motion to Quash Admin. Subpoena to RI Hosp.	1st Cir.	Circuit	1st Cir.	2026	Gender-affirming carealso Family & parental rights, Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records		35
Kosilek v. Spencer	1st Cir.	Circuit	1st Cir.	2015	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	12
L. M. v. Town of Middleborough, MassachusettsNo. 23-1535	1st Cir.	Circuit	1st Cir.	2023	Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education	Favorable	25
Lavigne v. Great Salt Bay Community School BoardNo. 24-1509	1st Cir.	Circuit	1st Cir.	2025	Family & parental rightsalso Schools & education	Favorable	5
Lucas Rosa v. Park West Bank & Trust Co.	1st Cir.	Circuit	1st Cir.	2000	Public accommodations	Favorable	1
Manchester v. Town of LudlowNo. 25-1502	1st Cir.	Circuit	1st Cir.	2025	Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment		6
Orr v. TrumpNo. 1:25-cv-10313	1st Cir.	Circuit	1st Cir.	2025	Identity documentsalso Federal executive actions		345
Rhode Island Latino Arts v. National Endowment for the ArtsNo. 25-2113	1st Cir.	Circuit	1st Cir.	2025			20

13 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.