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.
66 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A.C. v. Fred Kutruff | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2023 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 1 |
| A.C. v. Metropolitan School District of MartinsvilleNo. 25-1094 | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Athletics | Favorable | 37 |
| A.H. v. Minersville Area Sch. Dist. | M.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2020 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 7 |
| Alabama, State of v. CardonaNo. 7:24-cv-00533 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 98 | |
| Arlington School Board v. Linda McMahonNo. 25-2107 | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 21 | |
| Ashton Whitaker v. Kenosha Unified School Distri | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2017 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 4 |
| B. E. v. Vigo County School Corporation | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2023 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 14 |
| Blatt v. Cabela’s Retail Inc. | 2017 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | 6 | ||||
| Board of Education of Jefferson County School District RE-1 v. McMahonNo. 1:26-cv-03427 | D. Colo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2026 | Federal executive actionsalso Schools & education, Bathrooms & facilities, Athletics | 23 | |
| Board of Education v. United States Department of Education | S.D. Ohio | District | 6th Cir. | 2016 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 4 |
| 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 | |
| Bongo Productions, LLC v. Lawrence | M.D. Tenn. | District | 6th Cir. | 2022 | Public accommodationsalso Bathrooms & facilities, Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 63 |
| Bridge v. Oklahoma State Department of Education | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 97 |
| Camp Id-Ra-Ha-Je Association v. Roy | D. Colo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Bathrooms & facilities | 2 | |
| Carcaño v. McCrory | M.D.N.C. | District | 4th Cir. | 2021 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education, Public accommodations | Procedural no direction | 90 |
| Carla Cruzan v. Special School Dist. | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2019 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities, Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 10 |
| Catholic Benefits Association, The v. Burrows | D.N.D. | District | 8th Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Bathrooms & facilities, Employment | 2 | |
| Chandler v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 61 |
| Christian Employers Alliance v. United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | D.N.D. | District | 8th Cir. | 2026 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Bathrooms & facilities, Employment | 11 | |
| Dobre v. National RR Passenger Corp.(AMTRAK) | E.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 1993 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 1 |
| Dodds v. United States Department of Education | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2016 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 1 |
| Doe ex rel. Doe v. Boyertown Area School District | 3rd Cir. | Circuit | 3rd Cir. | 2022 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 35 |
| Doe v. Cabarrus County Board of EducationNo. 1:26-cv-00752 | M.D.N.C. | District | 4th Cir. | 2026 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education | 14 | |
| Doe v. Fairfax County School BoardNo. 1:25-cv-01662 | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections | 3 | |
| Doe v. Volusia County School Board | District | 2018 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | 2 | |||
| Drew Adams v. School Board of St. Johns County FloridaNo. 18-13592 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2018 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 22 |
| Duronslet v. County of Los Angeles | C.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2017 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Family & parental rights | Mixed | 2 |
| Etsitty v. Utah Transit Authority | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2007 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 1 |
| Evancho v. Pine-Richland School District | W.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2017 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Mostly favorable | 5 |
| Fairfax County School Board v. Linda McMahonNo. 25-2087 | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 130 | |
| G. G. v. Gloucester County School Board | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2017 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 1 |
| G.G. Ex Rel. Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2021 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 100 |
| J.A.W. v. Evansville Vanderburgh Sch. Corp. | S.D. Ind. | District | 7th Cir. | 2019 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 5 |
| Jackson-Edney v. Labrador | 2026 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Policing & criminal law | 13 | ||||
| Jane Doe v. Mukwonago Area School District | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 17 |
| Johnson v. Fresh Mark, Inc. | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2004 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 3 |
| Johnston v. University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education | W.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2015 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 5 |
| Jones v. Critchfield | D. Idaho | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education | 2 | |
| Kansas, State of v. United States Department of Education | D. Kan. | District | 10th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Athletics, Federal executive actions | 4 | |
| Kastl v. Maricopa County Community College District | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2009 | Employmentalso Schools & education, Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 2 |
| M.A.B. v. Bd. of Educ. of Talbot Cnty. | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2018 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Mostly favorable | 1 |
| Massapequa Union Free School District v. RosaNo. 2:25-cv-05892 | E.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2025 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education, Federal executive actions | 16 | |
| McCrory v. United States of America | E.D.N.C. | District | 4th Cir. | 2016 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Employment, Federal executive actions | 16 | |
| New Richmond Parents for Strong Schools, UA v. School District of New Richmond Board of EducationNo. 3:26-cv-00316 | W.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2026 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education | 26 | |
| Olympus Spa v. Armstrong | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Public accommodationsalso Bathrooms & facilities, Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 15 |
| Parents for Privacy v. Dall. Sch. Dist. No. 2 | D. Or. | District | 9th Cir. | 2018 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Family & parental rights, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 1 |
| Pascha Thomas v. City Schools of DecaturNo. 23-13467 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | 16 | |
| Roberts v. Clark County School District | D. Nev. | District | 9th Cir. | 2017 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 29 |
| Roe, et al. v. Critchfield, et al.No. 23-2807 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 8 |
| S.W. v. Loudoun County School BoardNo. 1:25-cv-01536 | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections | 63 |
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.