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.
105 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allan Josephson v. Toni Ganzel | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2019 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Employment | Adverse | 6 |
| Anna Lange v. Houston County, Georgia | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 71 |
| Baker v. Aetna Life Insurance Co. | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2017 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Mostly adverse | 16 |
| Barr v. Tucker | S.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | 2 | |
| Bernier v. Turbocam, Inc. | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 89 | |
| Blanchette v. Saint Anselm College | 2005 | Employment | 1 | ||||
| Blatt v. Cabela’s Retail Inc. | 2017 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | 6 | ||||
| Bostock v. Clayton CountyNo. 17-1618 | U.S. Supreme Court | U.S. Supreme Court | 2020 | Employment | Favorable | 69 | |
| Boyden v. Conlin | W.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Mostly favorable | 28 |
| Braidwood Management v. EEOCNo. 22-10145 | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Employment | Mostly adverse | 16 |
| Brandon v. Sage Corp. | W.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Employment | Mostly adverse | 83 |
| Brittany Tovar v. Essentia Health | 1st Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2022 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Mostly favorable | 8 |
| Broussard v. First Tower Loan, LLC | E.D. La. | District | 5th Cir. | 2017 | Employment | Mostly adverse | 14 |
| Brown v. Alaska Airlines IncNo. 2:22-cv-00668 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2022 | Employmentalso Speech & religious objections | 31 | |
| Carla Cruzan v. Special School Dist. | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2019 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities, Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 10 |
| Carter v. District of Columbia | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2023 | Employment | Adverse | 10 |
| Catholic Benefits Association, The v. Burrows | D.N.D. | District | 8th Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Bathrooms & facilities, Employment | 2 | |
| Chavez v. Credit Nation Auto Sales, Inc. | N.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 2014 | Employment | Mostly adverse | 6 |
| Christian Employers Alliance v. EEOC | D.N.D. | District | 8th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 10 | |
| Christian Employers Alliance v. United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | D.N.D. | District | 8th Cir. | 2026 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Bathrooms & facilities, Employment | 11 | |
| Cook v. PC Connection | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2010 | Employment | Adverse | 2 |
| Coombe v. Muse Management, Inc | Employment | 12 | |||||
| DeTore v. Local 245 of Jersey City Public Employees Union | D.N.J. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2024 | Employment | Adverse | 2 |
| Dobre v. National RR Passenger Corp.(AMTRAK) | E.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 1993 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 1 |
| Doe v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island | D.R.I. | District | 1st Cir. | 1992 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1 |
| Ellenor Zinski v. Liberty University, IncorporatedNo. 25-1581 | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Employmentalso Speech & religious objections | 43 | |
| Eller v. Prince George's County Public Schools | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2019 | Employmentalso Schools & education | 15 | |
| Equal Emp't Opportunity Comm'n v. A & E Tire, Inc. | D. Colo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2018 | Employment | Favorable | 1 |
| Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2023 | Employmentalso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 63 |
| Etsitty v. Utah Transit Authority | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2007 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 1 |
| Eure v. Sage Corp. | W.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2014 | Employment | Adverse | 3 |
| Fabian v. Hospital of Central Connecticut | D. Conn. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2016 | Employment | Favorable | 4 |
| Finkle v. Howard County | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2015 | Employment | Favorable | 2 |
| Fowlkes v. Ironworkers Local 40 | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2015 | Employment | Favorable | 3 |
| Fox v. City Of Austin | W.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Employment | 2 | |
| FreeState Justice v. Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionNo. 1:25-cv-02482 | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Employmentalso Federal executive actions | 10 | |
| Gage Elon Hunter v. United Parcel Service, Inc. | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2012 | Employment | Adverse | 1 |
| Gottschalk v. City & County of San Francisco | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2013 | Employment | Adverse | 5 |
| Hart v. Lew | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2013 | Employment | Mostly favorable | 1 |
| Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2018 | Employment | Favorable | 9 |
| Jamal v. Saks & Company | 2015 | Employment | 4 | ||||
| Jameka K. Evans v. Georgia Regional Hospital | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2019 | Employment | Mixed | 17 |
| James v. Ranch Mart Hardware, Inc. | D. Kan. | District | 10th Cir. | 1995 | Employment | Adverse | 1 |
| Janay Garrick v. Moody Bible Institute | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2024 | Employmentalso Speech & religious objections | 53 | |
| Jessica Tapia v. Jurupa Unified School District | C.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | 13 | |
| John Doe v. Catholic Relief ServicesNo. 25-1569 | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Employmentalso Speech & religious objections | 45 | |
| John Kluge v. Brownsburg Community School CorporationNo. 24-1942 | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | Mostly adverse | 34 |
| Johnson v. Fresh Mark, Inc. | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2004 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 3 |
| Karen Frances ULANE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. EASTERN AIRLINES, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Defendant-Appellant | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 1984 | Employment | Adverse | 2 |
| Kastl v. Maricopa County Community College District | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2009 | Employmentalso Schools & education, Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 2 |
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.