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.
16 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Board of Trustees of the California State University v. United States Department of EducationNo. 5:26-cv-01970 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Athleticsalso Schools & education, Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 10 | |
| California Nurses Association v. MullinNo. 4:26-cv-10680 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 112 | ||
| California Tribal Families Coalition v. Azar | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2022 | Family & parental rightsalso Federal executive actions | Adverse | 42 |
| City of Fresno v. NoemNo. 3:26-cv-01535 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 15 | ||
| City of Fresno v. TurnerNo. 3:25-cv-07070 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 123 | ||
| County of Santa Clara v. NoemNo. 3:25-cv-08330 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 181 | ||
| Gottschalk v. City & County of San Francisco | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2013 | Employment | Adverse | 5 |
| Housing Authority of the County of San Diego v. TurnerNo. 4:25-cv-08859 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 67 | ||
| Ray v. Antioch Unified School District | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2000 | Schools & education | Mostly favorable | 1 |
| Salles v. National Institutes of HealthNo. 3:26-cv-10510 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 10 | ||
| San Francisco A.I.D.S. Foundation v. TrumpNo. 4:25-cv-01824 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Federal executive actionsalso Speech & religious objections | 142 | |
| Seawright v. LucasNo. 3:26-cv-03444 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 7 | ||
| State of California v. United States Department of JusticeNo. 3:25-cv-04863 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 27 | ||
| State of Illinois v. United States Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentNo. 3:26-cv-02262 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 12 | ||
| Thakur v. TrumpNo. 3:25-cv-04737 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 294 | ||
| U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. IXL Learning, Inc | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | Employment | 12 |
16 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.