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.
97 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| American Academy of Pediatrics v. Federal Trade Commission | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 44 | |
| American Academy of Pediatrics v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Federal executive actionsalso Gender-affirming care, Speech & religious objections | Mostly favorable | 23 |
| American College of Pediatricians v. BecerraNo. 1:21-cv-00195 | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2021 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care, Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 44 | |
| Arlington School Board v. Linda McMahonNo. 25-2107 | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 21 | |
| 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 of the City School District of the City of New York v. United States Department of Education | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Federal executive actions | 112 | |
| 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 | |
| Brown v. TrumpNo. 1:25-cv-00583 | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Federal executive actions | 4 | |
| Buckingham v. Federal Bureau of PrisonsNo. 2:25-cv-00701 | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Federal executive actions | 22 | |
| California Tribal Families Coalition v. Azar | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2022 | Family & parental rightsalso Federal executive actions | Adverse | 42 |
| California Tribal Families Coalition v. Xavier Becerra | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | Family & parental rightsalso Federal executive actions | 3 | ||
| Carroll Independent School District v. United States Department of Education | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Federal executive actions | 15 | |
| Center for Constitutional Rights v. United States Department of JusticeNo. 1:26-cv-01821 | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | 4 | |
| Children's Hospital Medical Center v. U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 2 | ||||
| City & County of San Francisco v. Alex Azar, IINo. 20-15398 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2020 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 9 | |
| Coe v. BlancheNo. 26-1886 | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 28 | |
| Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Kennedy | 1st Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Federal executive actionsalso Gender-affirming care | Mostly favorable | 28 |
| Council for Global Equality v. U.S. Department of StateNo. 1:25-cv-02615 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Federal executive actions | 4 | |
| Department of Justice Administrative Subpoena No. 25-1431-030 | D. Colo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 63 | |
| Doctors for America v. Office of Personnel Management | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Federal executive actions | Mostly favorable | 139 |
| Doe v. Mattis | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2018 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 2 |
| Doe v. McHenry | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | Unclear | 2 |
| Doe v. Trump | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 137 |
| Dr. James Dobson Family Institute v. Becerra | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Health coverage & benefits, Federal executive actions | 2 | |
| E.K. v. Department of Defense Education ActivityNo. 25-2497 | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 125 | |
| Elizabeth Hunter v. USEDUNo. 23-35174 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | Adverse | 23 |
| Endocrine Society v. Federal Trade Commission | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 45 | |
| Eyerly v. TrumpNo. 1:25-cv-00582 | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Federal executive actions | 4 | |
| Fairfax County School Board v. Linda McMahonNo. 25-2087 | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 130 | |
| Faith Action Ministry Alliance, Inc. v. Fried | M.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Federal executive actions | 2 | |
| Federal Trade Commission v. World Professional Association for Transgender Health, Inc. | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions | 99 | |
| Franciscan Alliance v. Becerra | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Health coverage & benefits, Federal executive actions | Adverse | 4 |
| Franciscan Alliance, Inc. v. Burwell | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Health coverage & benefits, Federal executive actions | Adverse | 185 |
| FreeState Justice v. Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionNo. 1:25-cv-02482 | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Employmentalso Federal executive actions | 10 | |
| GLMA v. National Institutes of Health | 2026 | Federal executive actionsalso Gender-affirming care | 47 | ||||
| In Re 2025 Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles Subpoena | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 38 | ||||
| In Re Administrative Subpoenas to Children's Hospitals | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 32 | ||||
| In Re: 2025 Subpoena to Children's National Hospital | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 76 | ||||
| In re: 2025 UPMC Subpoena | 3rd Cir. | Circuit | 3rd Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 36 | |
| In Re: Administrative Subpoena 25-1431-032 | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 30 | ||||
| In Re: Administrative Subpoena No. 25-1431-014 | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 79 | ||||
| In Re: Administrative Subpoena No. 25-1431-017 to Children's Health Care d/b/a Children's Minnesota | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 10 | ||||
| In Re: Administrative Subpoena No. 25-1431-019 | 1st Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 66 | |
| In Re: Children's National Subpoena No. 25-1431-028 v. U.S. Department of Justice | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 18 | ||||
| In Re: Motion to Quash Admin. Subpoena to RI Hosp. | 1st Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Family & parental rights, Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 35 | |
| In Re: Motion to Quash Administrative Subpoena to Rhode Island Hospital | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Family & parental rights, Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 62 | ||||
| Ireland v. Hegseth | 2025 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | 32 | ||||
| Jane Doe 2 v. Patrick Shanahan | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2019 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Adverse | 1 |
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
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| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Docs |
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Every case in the corpus. Click a case name for its
overview; click any column to sort, again to reverse. Each case has one
main issue and may raise others (shown as "also…"); the Issue filter finds
a case by either. Issues were checked case by case in September 2026.
Level, circuit and outcome come from the coded caselaw dataset, so some
rows are blank where a case hasn't been coded yet.
Archive stats
Direct counts from the archive index — instant and exact.
Counts are FILINGS (docket entries); the
distinct-case figure is shown alongside.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Table view (stages, durations and circuits)
Expert witnesses
A curated roster of the recurring expert witnesses in this
litigation, with every declaration, expert report, affidavit, deposition
and trial-testimony document the corpus holds for each, grouped by case.
Coverage is limited by what has been pulled: expert
material is heavily attachment-borne, so a witness who testified in ten
cases may show fewer here, and some documents are marked
in a larger filing — the testimony sits inside an appendix or
exhibit set rather than as its own entry.
Judges
The record counts how the judge voted, not
how the case came out. Dissents and concurrences are parsed from the
opinions themselves ("NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge, dissenting"), so a judge who
dissented is scored against the panel's result — without that, Judge
Niemeyer read 4–3 favorable to trans claimants. Partial dissents are
shown but left out of the tally.
Votes come from separate-writing headings and from
the opinion's own joinder block ("Judge Richardson wrote a dissenting
opinion, in which Judge Wilkinson, Judge Niemeyer… joined"), so a
judge who joins a dissent without writing one still counts. Judges are
resolved to real people against the Federal Judicial Center directory
using the deciding court — there are 32 federal judges named Smith, and
two Judge Pryors on the Eleventh Circuit. 195 ambiguous name/court pairs
were dropped rather than merged, and a case with no opinion text in the
corpus keeps the panel result for want of anything better.
Small numbers are small numbers: three rulings is not a
tendency.