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.
37 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon v. Richardson CountyClosed · Nebraska | Nebraska Supreme Court | State | 2001 | Policing & criminal law | 2 | |
| California Education Committee v. O'ConnellClosed · California | Sacramento County Superior Court | State | 2009 | Schools & education | 2 | |
| CHRO ex rel. Peterson v. City of HartfordClosed · Connecticut | Connecticut Supreme Court | State | 2011 | Employment | 2 | |
| CHRO v. Edge FitnessClosed · Connecticut | Connecticut Supreme Court | State | 2021 | Public accommodationsalso Bathrooms & facilities | 1 | |
| Covington v. ReynoldsNo. 19-1197 · Closed · Iowa | Iowa Supreme Court | State | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | 14 | |
| Doe v. ClenchyClosed · Maine | Maine Supreme Judicial Court | State | 2011 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education | 7 | |
| Doe v. Madison Metropolitan School DistrictClosed · Wisconsin | Wisconsin Court of Appeals | State | 2020 | Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights, Privacy & medical records | 57 | |
| Doe v. Manchester School DistrictClosed · New Hampshire | New Hampshire Supreme Court | State | 2023 | Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights, Privacy & medical records | 2 | |
| Doe v. Montgomery County Board of ElectionsClosed · Maryland | Maryland Court of Appeals | State | 2008 | Public accommodationsalso Employment, Housing & shelters | 3 | |
| Dominguez v. City of New YorkClosed · New York | Supreme Court of the State of New York, Bronx County | State | 2019 | Policing & criminal law | 4 | |
| E.N. v. KehoeClosed · Missouri | Supreme Court of Missouri | State | 2023 | Gender-affirming care | 5 | |
| Freeman v. Denny'sClosed · Maine | Androscoggin County Superior Court | State | 2009 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Public accommodations | 4 | |
| Good v. Iowa Department of Human ServicesNo. CVCV055470 · Closed · Iowa | Iowa Supreme Court | State | 2017 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | 12 | |
| Hispanic AIDS Forum v. BrunoClosed · New York | Appellate Division, First Department | State | 2003 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Housing & shelters | 7 | |
| Hobaugh v. MontanaClosed · Montana | Montana Supreme Court | State | 2017 | Bathrooms & facilities | 11 | |
| Hobby Lobby v. SommervilleNo. 2-19-0362 · Closed · Illinois | Illinois Appellate Court, Second District | State | 2020 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Employment | 3 | |
| In re FeldhausClosed · Georgia | Court of Appeals of Georgia | State | 2016 | Identity documents | 4 | |
| In re Mariah L.Closed · New York | New York Court of Appeals | State | 2007 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | 1 | |
| K.L. v. Alaska Department of AdministrationNo. 3AN-11-05431 CI · Closed · Alaska | Alaska Superior Court, Third Judicial District, Anchorage | State | 2011 | Identity documents | 4 | |
| Kansas v. HarperNo. 23-CV-000422 · Closed · Kansas | Shawnee County District Court | State | 2023 | Identity documents | 55 | |
| Ketcham v. Regence BlueCross BlueShield of OregonNo. 19CV31838 · Closed · Oregon | Multnomah County Circuit Court | State | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 1 | |
| Kirk v. ArnoldClosed · Illinois | Circuit Court of Cook County | State | 2009 | Identity documents | 2 | |
| Knight v. St. Joseph HospitalClosed · California | Superior Court of California, Humboldt County | State | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections | 1 | |
| Loe v. TexasNo. 23-0697 · Closed · Texas | Supreme Court of Texas | State | 2023 | Gender-affirming care | 26 | |
| Lucero v. Anoka-Hennepin School DistrictClosed · Minnesota | Minnesota Court of Appeals | State | 2020 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education | 2 | |
| Murphy v. TwitterNo. A158214 · Closed · California | California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District | State | 2020 | Speech & religious objections | 2 | |
| Oliver v. The BarbershopClosed · California | Superior Court of California, San Bernardino County | State | 2016 | Public accommodations | 3 | |
| OutFront Minnesota v. Johnson PiperClosed · Minnesota | Minnesota District Court, Ramsey County | State | 2015 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | 3 | |
| People v. DeLeeClosed · New York | New York Court of Appeals | State | 2013 | Policing & criminal law | 1 | |
| People v. Rogers (Mich.)No. COA 346348 · Closed · Michigan | Michigan Court of Appeals | State | 2020 | Policing & criminal law | 1 | |
| Planned Parenthood of the Heartland v. HilgersClosed · Nebraska | Nebraska Supreme Court | State | 2023 | Gender-affirming care | 10 | |
| R.M.A. v. Blue Springs School DistrictClosed · Missouri | Supreme Court of Missouri | State | 2018 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education | 2 | |
| Southampton Community Healthcare v. BaileyClosed · Missouri | Circuit Court of St. Louis County | State | 2023 | Gender-affirming care | 6 | |
| Turner v. WhiteClosed · Illinois | Illinois Supreme Court | State | Identity documentsalso Policing & criminal law | 1 | ||
| Vasquez v. Iowa Department of Human ServicesClosed · Iowa | Iowa Supreme Court | State | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | 23 | |
| Vroegh v. Iowa Department of CorrectionsClosed · Iowa | Iowa Supreme Court | State | 2016 | Gender-affirming carealso Bathrooms & facilities, Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 20 | |
| Wade v. StarbucksNo. F079838 · Closed · California | Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate District | State | 2020 | Employment | 4 |
37 cases
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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Archive stats
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.