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.

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123 of 664 cases match.

Cases
Case	Court	Level	Cir.	Year	Issue / type	Outcome	Documents
303 Creative LLC v. ElenisNo. 19-1413	U.S. Supreme Court	U.S. Supreme Court		2021	Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations	Adverse	81
Allan Josephson v. Toni Ganzel	6th Cir.	Circuit	6th Cir.	2019	Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Employment	Adverse	6
Andrew Reid v. Rory Griffin	8th Cir.	Circuit	8th Cir.	2024	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	2
Anita Green v. Miss United States of America	9th Cir.	Circuit	9th Cir.	2023	Public accommodationsalso Speech & religious objections	Adverse	3
Anna Lange v. Houston County, Georgia	11th Cir.	Circuit	11th Cir.	2025	Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits	Adverse	71
Aurora Regino v. Kelly Staley	9th Cir.	Circuit	9th Cir.	2026	Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights	Adverse	32
Bates v. Pakseresht, et al.No. 23-4169	9th Cir.	Circuit	9th Cir.	2023	Speech & religious objectionsalso Family & parental rights	Adverse	28
Beaulieu v. Aulis, et al.	D.N.H.	District	1st Cir.	2016	Prisons & detention	Adverse	7
Bridge v. Oklahoma State Department of Education	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2026	Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities	Adverse	97
California Tribal Families Coalition v. Azar	N.D. Cal.	District	9th Cir.	2022	Family & parental rightsalso Federal executive actions	Adverse	42
Carter v. District of Columbia	D.D.C.	District	D.C. Cir.	2023	Employment	Adverse	10
Casillas v. Daines	S.D.N.Y.	District	2nd Cir.	2008	Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits	Adverse	36
Catholic Charities of Jackson v. Gretchen Whitmer	6th Cir.	Circuit	6th Cir.	2025	Conversion therapyalso Speech & religious objections	Adverse	14
Clark v. Hanley	2nd Cir.	Circuit	2nd Cir.	2023	Prisons & detention	Adverse	26
Clark v. Valletta	2nd Cir.	Circuit	2nd Cir.	2025	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	2
Cook v. PC Connection	D.N.H.	District	1st Cir.	2010	Employment	Adverse	2
Darcy Corbitt v. Secretary of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency	11th Cir.	Circuit	11th Cir.	2024	Identity documents	Adverse	14
De'Lonta v. Fulmore	E.D. Va.	District	4th Cir.	2010	Prisons & detention	Adverse	3
Dee Farmer v. Richard Haas, Edward J. Brennan, and L.E. Dubois	U.S. Supreme Court	U.S. Supreme Court	7th Cir.	1993	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	2
DeGroat v. Townsend	S.D. Ohio	District	6th Cir.	2025	Military	Adverse	39
DeTore v. Local 245 of Jersey City Public Employees Union	D.N.J.	District	3rd Cir.	2024	Employment	Adverse	2
Dimarco v. WYDOC Women's Center	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2007	Prisons & detention	Adverse	1
Dobre v. National RR Passenger Corp.(AMTRAK)	E.D. Pa.	District	3rd Cir.	1993	Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities	Adverse	1
Doe v. Balaam	D. Nev.	District	9th Cir.	2007	Prisons & detentionalso Policing & criminal law	Adverse	1
Doe v. Holcomb	7th Cir.	Circuit	7th Cir.	2018	Identity documentsalso Immigration & asylum	Adverse	1
Druley v. Patton	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2015	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	1
Dylan Brandt v. Tim GriffinNo. 23-2681	8th Cir.	Circuit	8th Cir.	2023	Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights	Adverse	51
Elizabeth Hunter v. USEDUNo. 23-35174	9th Cir.	Circuit	9th Cir.	2023	Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions	Adverse	23
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
Farmer v. Carlson	M.D. Pa.	District	3rd Cir.	1988	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	1
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
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
G. G. v. Gloucester County School Board	4th Cir.	Circuit	4th Cir.	2017	Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities	Adverse	1
Gage Elon Hunter v. United Parcel Service, Inc.	8th Cir.	Circuit	8th Cir.	2012	Employment	Adverse	1
Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender Pride/Twin Cities v. Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board	D. Minn.	District	8th Cir.	2010	Drag & expressionalso Speech & religious objections	Adverse	1
Gina Ricarda Miranda, Also Known as Ricardo Pabel Miranda v. Immigration and Naturalization Service United States of America	8th Cir.	Circuit	8th Cir.	1995	Immigration & asylum	Adverse	1
GLBT Youth in IA Schools, etc. v. Kimberly Reynolds	8th Cir.	Circuit	8th Cir.	2024	Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections	Adverse	11
Gottschalk v. City & County of San Francisco	N.D. Cal.	District	9th Cir.	2013	Employment	Adverse	5
Hannah Robertson v. Anderson Mill Elementary	4th Cir.	Circuit	4th Cir.	2021	Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections	Adverse	10
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
In Re: Subpoenas Served On	D.D.C.	District	D.C. Cir.	2023	Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits	Adverse	1
James v. Ranch Mart Hardware, Inc.	D. Kan.	District	10th Cir.	1995	Employment	Adverse	1
Jane Anne Leyland v. Verne Orr, Secretary of the Air Force, James F. Egbert, Commander, United States Air Reserve Personnel Center, and James E. Christman, Surgeon, United States Air Reserve Personnel Center	9th Cir.	Circuit	9th Cir.	1987	Military	Adverse	2
Jane Doe 1 v. William Thornbury, Jr.	6th Cir.	Circuit	6th Cir.	2023	Gender-affirming care	Adverse	29
Jane Doe 2 v. Patrick Shanahan	D.C. Cir.	Circuit	D.C. Cir.	2019	Militaryalso Federal executive actions	Adverse	1
Janiah Monroe v. Steven Bowman	7th Cir.	Circuit	7th Cir.	2026	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	13

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 name Court Level Issue / type Circuit Outcome Year ≥ Year ≤

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Case	Court	Level	Cir.	Year	Issue / type	Outcome	Docs

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.

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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

Filter Appears in

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

Filter Appointed by Coded rulings

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.