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.
78 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Perkins v. MontanaActive · Montana | Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County | State | 2025 | Bathrooms & facilities | 27 | ||
| R.M.A. v. Blue Springs School DistrictClosed · Missouri | Supreme Court of Missouri | State | 2018 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education | 2 | ||
| 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 | |
| School Board Rapides Parish v. Education | W.D. La. | District | 5th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 3 | |
| Sexuality and Gender Alliance v. Critchfield | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | 170 | |
| Sommers v. Budget Marketing, Inc. | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 1982 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 1 |
| State of Arkansas v. EDUCNo. 24-2921 | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 15 | |
| State of Kansas v. EDUCNo. 24-3097 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Athletics, Federal executive actions | 61 | |
| State of Louisiana v. EDUCNo. 24-30399 | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 38 | |
| State of Tenn. v. Linda McMahonNo. 24-5588 | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 128 | |
| State of Tennessee v. Department of EducationNo. 22-5807 | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2022 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Athletics, Federal executive actions | 57 | |
| State of Texas v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2022 | Employmentalso Gender-affirming care, Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | Adverse | 23 |
| Student v. Arcadia Unified School DistrictClosed · California | U.S. Department of Education OCR | Federal agency | 2011 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education | 4 | ||
| Students and Parents for Privacy v. United States Department of Educat | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 20 | ||
| Students and Parents for Privacy v. United States Department of Education | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2016 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 1 |
| United States v. Minnesota Department of EducationNo. 0:26-cv-02078 | D. Minn. | District | 8th Cir. | 2026 | Athleticsalso Schools & education, Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 2 | |
| Vroegh v. Iowa Department of CorrectionsClosed · Iowa | Iowa Supreme Court | State | 2016 | Gender-affirming carealso Bathrooms & facilities, Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 20 | ||
| Wailes v. Jefferson County Public SchoolsNo. 25-1341 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | 17 | |
| Whitaker ex rel. Whitaker v. Kenosha Unified School District No. 1 Board of Education | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2016 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Procedural no direction | 41 |
| Withrow v. United States of AmericaNo. 1:25-cv-04073 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 60 | |
| Women in Struggle v. Bain | M.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2023 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Policing & criminal law | 3 |
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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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.