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.
23 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Reid v. Rory Griffin | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Anmarie Calgaro v. St. Louis County | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2019 | Family & parental rightsalso Gender-affirming care, Schools & education | Favorable | 9 |
| Carla Cruzan v. Special School Dist. | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2019 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities, Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 10 |
| Dylan Brandt v. Leslie Rutledge | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2022 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | Favorable | 5 |
| Dylan Brandt v. Tim GriffinNo. 23-2681 | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2023 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | Adverse | 51 |
| Female Athletes United v. Keith EllisonNo. 25-2899 | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2025 | Athleticsalso Schools & education | 24 | |
| Gage Elon Hunter v. United Parcel Service, Inc. | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2012 | Employment | Adverse | 1 |
| Geri Bachman v. Hickman Mills School DistrictNo. 25-1772 | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2025 | 5 | ||
| Gina Ricarda Miranda, Also Known as Ricardo Pabel Miranda v. Immigration and Naturalization Service United States of America | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 1995 | Immigration & asylum | Adverse | 1 |
| GLBT Youth in IA Schools, etc. v. Kimberly Reynolds | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections | Adverse | 11 |
| John Smith v. Jessie K. Rasmussen, in Her Official Capacity as Director of the Iowa Department of Human Services | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2001 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 3 |
| Merlin C. Long v. Crispus C. Nix | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 1996 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 3 |
| Parents Defending Education v. LinnMar Community School Dist. | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2023 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | Adverse | 9 |
| Pinneke v. Preisser | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 1980 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1 |
| Sease Beard v. Doris Falkenrath | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2024 | Prisons & detention | Mixed | 1 |
| Sommers v. Budget Marketing, Inc. | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 1982 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 1 |
| Stansel Prowse v. Dexter Payne | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 1 |
| State of Arkansas v. EDUCNo. 24-2921 | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 15 | |
| Terry Sanders v. May Department Stores Company | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2003 | Employment | Adverse | 1 |
| Terry Sanders v. May Dept. Store Co. | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2003 | Employment | Adverse | 1 |
| The Religious Sisters of Mercy v. Xavier Becerra | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 6 |
| Thomas L. White v. Harold Farrier Crispus C. Nix | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 1988 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| United States v. Shawn Thomason | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2021 | Policing & criminal law | Adverse | 2 |
23 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.