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.
14 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Association of Physicians for Human Rights, Inc. v. National Institutes of HealthNo. 8:25-cv-01620 | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | 90 | ||
| Bethel Ministries, Inc. v. Salmon | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2019 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education | 2 | |
| Doe v. BedellNo. 1:26-cv-02690 | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | 42 | |
| Doe v. Department of DefenseNo. 8:25-cv-02947 | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | 7 | ||
| Eller v. Prince George's County Public Schools | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2019 | Employmentalso Schools & education | 15 | |
| Finkle v. Howard County | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2015 | Employment | Favorable | 2 |
| FreeState Justice v. Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionNo. 1:25-cv-02482 | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Employmentalso Federal executive actions | 10 | |
| Hart v. Lew | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2013 | Employment | Mostly favorable | 1 |
| M.A.B. v. Bd. of Educ. of Talbot Cnty. | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2018 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Mostly favorable | 1 |
| O'Neill v. RuddNo. 1:25-cv-04228 | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | 27 | ||
| Powell v. Read's, Inc. | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 1977 | Employment | Adverse | 1 |
| Stone v. Trump | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2021 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 14 |
| United States v. Board of Education of Anne Arundel CountyNo. 1:26-cv-04499 | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2026 | 3 | ||
| Yukich v. USA FencingNo. 8:26-cv-04238 | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2026 | 13 |
14 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
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Docs |
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Archive stats
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.