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.
19 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams v. Federal Bureau of Prisons | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 3 |
| Alan L. v. Lexington Public SchoolsNo. 1:25-cv-13047 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | 34 | |
| Alexander v. Weiner | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 5 |
| American Academy of HIV Medicine v. Health Resources and Services AdministrationNo. 1:26-cv-12638 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2026 | 72 | ||
| Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. TrumpNo. 1:25-cv-12162 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 184 | ||
| Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. U.S. Department of AgricultureNo. 1:26-cv-11396 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2026 | 94 | ||
| Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. U.S. Department of EducationNo. 1:25-cv-13244 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 22 | ||
| Horizon Christian Fellowship v. Williamson | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations | 1 | ||
| Jones v. Mahaniah | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Family & parental rightsalso Speech & religious objections | 2 | |
| Kosilek v. Maloney | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2002 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Massachusetts Fair Housing Center v. The Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentNo. 3:26-cv-30117 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2026 | 23 | ||
| National Council of Nonprofits v. McMahonNo. 1:25-cv-13242 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 153 | ||
| National Parks Conservation Association v. Department of the InteriorNo. 1:26-cv-10877 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2026 | 57 | ||
| Scott v. Federal Bureau of PrisonsNo. 1:25-cv-10580 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Federal executive actions | 1 | |
| Soneeya v. Spencer | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2012 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| State of California v. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesNo. 1:25-cv-12019 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | 98 | |
| State of Illinois v. Department of Health and Human ServicesNo. 1:26-cv-14051 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2026 | 18 | ||
| Victim Rights Law Center v. United States Department of EducationNo. 1:25-cv-11042 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 59 | ||
| Wittkowski v. Spencer | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 6 |
19 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.