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.
607 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Rims Barber v. Phil Bryant | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2017 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Family & parental rights, Public accommodations | Adverse | 2 |
| 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 |
| Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights v. McMahon | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Federal executive actionsalso Gender-affirming care, Immigration & asylum | Mostly favorable | 23 |
| Robert Updegrove v. Jason Miyares | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2021 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations | 8 | |
| Robert W. Otto v. City of Boca Raton, FloridaNo. 9:18-cv-80771 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2023 | Conversion therapyalso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 34 |
| Roberts v. Clark County School District | D. Nev. | District | 9th Cir. | 2017 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 29 |
| Roberts v. Portland Public SchoolsNo. 3:26-cv-01680 | D. Or. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Family & parental rights | 8 | |
| Roe v. Johnston | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Identity documents | Adverse | 102 |
| Roe, et al. v. Critchfield, et al.No. 23-2807 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 8 |
| 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 |
| Rush v. Johnson | N.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 1983 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 1 |
| Rush v. Parham | N.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 1977 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1 |
| Ryan Karnoski v. Donald Trump | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2020 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 7 |
| S.D., et al. v. Reese, et al.No. 26-4872 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detention | 10 | |
| S.W. v. Loudoun County School BoardNo. 1:25-cv-01536 | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections | 63 | |
| Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish v. Dana Nessel | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Employment, Public accommodations | 1 | |
| Sage Blair v. Appomattox County School BoardNo. 6:23-cv-00047 | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2023 | Family & parental rightsalso Schools & education | Mixed | 105 |
| Salles v. National Institutes of HealthNo. 3:26-cv-10510 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 10 | ||
| San Francisco A.I.D.S. Foundation v. TrumpNo. 4:25-cv-01824 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Federal executive actionsalso Speech & religious objections | 142 | |
| Santos-Zacaria v. Garland | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Immigration & asylum | Adverse | 2 |
| Schlacter et. al. v. U.S. Department of State et. al. | 2026 | Identity documentsalso Federal executive actions | 37 | ||||
| School Board Rapides Parish v. Education | W.D. La. | District | 5th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 3 | |
| Schroer v. Billington | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2009 | Employment | Favorable | 185 |
| Scott Gibson v. Bryan Collier | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Scott v. CSL Plasma, Inc. | D. Minn. | District | 8th Cir. | 2016 | Public accommodations | Favorable | 6 |
| 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 | |
| Sean M. Brookings v. R.R. Denny Clunk, Judge, Stark County, Ohio | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2004 | Policing & criminal lawalso Identity documents, Family & parental rights | Adverse | 1 |
| Sease Beard v. Doris Falkenrath | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2024 | Prisons & detention | Mixed | 1 |
| Seattle Children's Hospital v. United States Department of Justice | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions | 29 | |
| Seawright v. LucasNo. 3:26-cv-03444 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 7 | ||
| Sevier v. Mueller | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2018 | Other | 2 | |
| Sexuality and Gender Alliance v. Critchfield | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | 170 | |
| Shauntae Anderson v. William CrouchNo. 22-1927 | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2023 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 160 |
| Shaw v. District of Columbia | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2016 | Policing & criminal lawalso Prisons & detention | Mostly adverse | 3 |
| Shilling v. United States of AmericaNo. 2:25-cv-00241 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | 284 | |
| Smith v. City of Salem, Ohio | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2004 | Employment | Favorable | 3 |
| Smith v. Palmer | N.D. Iowa | District | 8th Cir. | 1998 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1 |
| Sommers v. Budget Marketing, Inc. | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 1982 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 1 |
| Soneeya v. Spencer | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2012 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Soule Ex Rel. Stanescu v. Connecticut Association of Schools, Inc.No. 21-1365 | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2021 | Athleticsalso Schools & education | Mostly adverse | 220 |
| Southern Utah Drag Stars v. City of St. George | D. Utah | District | 10th Cir. | 2023 | Drag & expressionalso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 30 |
| Spectrum WT v. WendlerNo. 23-10994 | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2023 | Drag & expressionalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 175 |
| Speech First v. McCall | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education | Adverse | 2 |
| Speech First v. Shrum | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education | 9 | |
| Speech First, Inc v. Wintersteen | S.D. Iowa | District | 8th Cir. | 2020 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education | 2 | |
| Spicer v. Terhune | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2003 | 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.
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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.