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.
202 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Druley v. Patton | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2015 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Dylan Brandt v. Leslie Rutledge | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2022 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | Favorable | 5 |
| Dylan Brandt v. Tim GriffinNo. 23-2681 | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2023 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | Adverse | 51 |
| E.N. v. KehoeClosed · Missouri | Supreme Court of Missouri | State | 2023 | Gender-affirming care | 5 | ||
| Edmo v. Idaho Dep't of Corr. | D. Idaho | District | 9th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Endocrine Society v. Federal Trade Commission | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 45 | |
| Erika S. v. O'Malley | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2024 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care | Favorable | 1 |
| Eyerly v. TrumpNo. 1:25-cv-00582 | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Federal executive actions | 4 | |
| Farmer v. Carlson | M.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 1988 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Farmer v. Hawk-Sawyer | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 1998 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 16 |
| Farmer v. Perrill | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2002 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Farmer, Dee v. Moritsugu, Kenneth | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 1998 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| 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 | |
| Fields v. Smith | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2011 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| Flack v. Wis. Dept. of Health Servs. | W.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1 |
| 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 |
| GLMA v. National Institutes of Health | 2026 | Federal executive actionsalso Gender-affirming care | 47 | ||||
| Good v. Iowa Department of Human ServicesNo. CVCV055470 · Closed · Iowa | Iowa Supreme Court | State | 2017 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | 12 | ||
| Gordon v. Aetna Life Insurance Co. | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | 8 | |
| Gotti v. Raemisch | 2010 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | 2 | ||||
| Hammons v. University of Maryland Medical System, Inc. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits, Speech & religious objections | 124 | ||||
| Haverkamp v. Linthicum | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 4 |
| Hennessy-Waller v. Snyder | D. Ariz. | District | 9th Cir. | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 108 |
| Hicklin v. Precythe (formerly Hicklin v. Lombardi) | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | 23 | ||||
| Iglesias v. True | S.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 216 |
| 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 Declaratory Ruling on Health Insurance Exclusions (Conn. CHRO)Closed · Connecticut | Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities | State agency | 2020 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | 3 | ||
| In re Mariah L.Closed · New York | New York Court of Appeals | State | 2007 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | 1 | ||
| 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: James EsseksNo. 24-11618 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming care | 5 | |
| 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 | ||||
| In Re: Subpoenas Served On | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2023 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 1 |
| In re: World Professional Association for Transgender HeaNo. 23-11753 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2023 | Gender-affirming care | 64 | |
| International Partners For Ethical Care Inc, et al. v. Ferguson, et al.No. 24-3661 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Family & parental rightsalso Gender-affirming care, Housing & shelters | Favorable | 6 |
| Jane Doe 1 v. William Thornbury, Jr. | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2023 | Gender-affirming care | Adverse | 29 |
| Jane Doe v. Todd Blanche | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | Mostly adverse | 336 |
| Janiah Monroe v. Steven Bowman | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 13 |
| John Andrew Cuoco v. Kenneth Moritsugu | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2000 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| John Doe v. Jami Snyder | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2022 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Mostly adverse | 4 |
| John Smith v. Jessie K. Rasmussen, in Her Official Capacity as Director of the Iowa Department of Human Services | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2001 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 3 |
| Johnson v. Sanders | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 6 |
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.