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.
118 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Balsewicz v. Jonathan Pawlyk | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2021 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 9 |
| Johnson v. Sanders | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 6 |
| Jones v. Trump | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 53 |
| Josephine Brown v. Aristedes Zavaras, Robert Furlong | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 1995 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mixed | 1 |
| Keohane v. Jones | N.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 40 |
| Kesha Williams v. Stacey Kincaid | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2022 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care | Favorable | 11 |
| Kingdom v. Trump | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 302 |
| Konitzer v. Frank | E.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2010 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 1 |
| Kosilek v. Maloney | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2002 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Kosilek v. Spencer | 1st Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2015 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 12 |
| Lamb v. Maschner | D. Kan. | District | 10th Cir. | 1986 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Lamb v. Norwood | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Lavarita D. Meriwether v. Gordon H. Faulkner | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 1987 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Lisa Barrett v. Warden, NHSP | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2003 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Maddilyn Marcum v. Cookie CrewsNo. 25-5840 | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | 2 | |
| Manning v. Hagel, et al. | 2017 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Military | 11 | ||||
| Mark A. Campbell v. Kevin Kallas | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2020 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 21 |
| Merlin C. Long v. Crispus C. Nix | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 1996 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 3 |
| Michelle-Lael Norsworthy v. Jeffrey Beard | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2015 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mixed | 6 |
| Moe v. TrumpNo. 1:25-cv-10195 | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Federal executive actions | 81 | |
| Morris v. Fletcher | W.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 12 |
| Oakleaf v. Martinez | D.N.M. | District | 10th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Ophelia De'Lonta v. Gene Johnson | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2013 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 3 |
| Peter Gibbs and Brett (Brooke) Sonia v. P N.H. Department of Corrections Commissioner Helen Hanks et al. | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2021 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Philip Rosati v. Dr. Igbinoso | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2015 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Phillips v. Michigan Department of Corrections | W.D. Mich. | District | 6th Cir. | 1990 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Pinson v. United States Department of Justice | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2022 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mixed | 8 |
| Powell v. Cusimano | D. Conn. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2004 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care | Adverse | 1 |
| Praylor v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2005 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 4 |
| Reiyn Keohane v. Florida Department of Corrections Secretary | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2020 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Richardson v. Dist. of Columbia | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2018 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Richardson v. Smith | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2024 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 9 |
| Rios v. Redding | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2022 | Prisons & detention | 4 | |
| Robbin Amanda Bayse v. Ted Philbin | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Roy Mitchell v. Edward Wall | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2015 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 2 |
| Roy Mitchell, Jr. v. Kevin Kallas | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 18 |
| S.D., et al. v. Reese, et al.No. 26-4872 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detention | 10 | |
| Scott Gibson v. Bryan Collier | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Scott v. Federal Bureau of PrisonsNo. 1:25-cv-10580 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Federal executive actions | 1 | |
| Sease Beard v. Doris Falkenrath | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2024 | Prisons & detention | Mixed | 1 |
| Shaw v. District of Columbia | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2016 | Policing & criminal lawalso Prisons & detention | Mostly adverse | 3 |
| Soneeya v. Spencer | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2012 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Spicer v. Terhune | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2003 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Stansel Prowse v. Dexter Payne | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 1 |
| Star v. Gramley | C.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 1993 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Sundstrom v. Frank | E.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2011 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 11 |
| Supre v. Ricketts | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 1986 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Tasha S. Maggert v. Craig A. Hanks | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 1997 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | 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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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.