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.
270 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| De'lontra v. Angelone | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2003 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Defending Education v. Olentangy Local School DistNo. 23-3630 | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2023 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections | 15 | |
| Defending Education v. SullivanNo. 1:25-cv-01572 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations | 43 | |
| Dekker v. Weida | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1,052 |
| Dimarco v. WYDOC Women's Center | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2007 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Dodds v. United States Department of Education | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2016 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 1 |
| Doe ex rel. Doe v. Boyertown Area School District | 3rd Cir. | Circuit | 3rd Cir. | 2022 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 35 |
| Doe v. Holcomb | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2018 | Identity documentsalso Immigration & asylum | Adverse | 1 |
| Doe v. Mattis | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2018 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 2 |
| Donna McGrath Robert Jinks, A/K/A Tanya Jinks, A/K/A Tanya Medina, and Norbert Lopez, A/K/A Tara Lopez v. Toys "R" Us, Inc. | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2004 | Public accommodations | Procedural no direction | 3 |
| Douglas W. Schwenk v. James Hartford Steve Sinclair Robert Mitchell,opinion | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2000 | Prisons & detention | Mixed | 1 |
| Doxa Enterprises v. SullivanNo. 26-1104 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2026 | Public accommodationsalso Speech & religious objections | 2 | |
| Drew Adams v. School Board of St. Johns County FloridaNo. 18-13592 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2018 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 22 |
| Druley v. Patton | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2015 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Duckett v. GarciaNo. 25-4969 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Prisons & detention | 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.K. v. Department of Defense Education ActivityNo. 25-2497 | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 125 | |
| Elizabeth Hunter v. USEDUNo. 23-35174 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | Adverse | 23 |
| Ellenor Zinski v. Liberty University, IncorporatedNo. 25-1581 | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Employmentalso Speech & religious objections | 43 | |
| Emilee Carpenter, LLC v. JamesNo. 22-75 | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations | 30 | |
| Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2023 | Employmentalso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 63 |
| Estate of DiMarco v. Wyoming Department of Corrections, Division of Prisons | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2004 | Prisons & detention | Mixed | 5 |
| Etsitty v. Utah Transit Authority | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2007 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 1 |
| Fairfax County School Board v. Linda McMahonNo. 25-2087 | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 130 | |
| 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 |
| Female Athletes United v. Keith EllisonNo. 25-2899 | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2025 | Athleticsalso Schools & education | 24 | |
| Fields v. Smith | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2011 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| Foote v. Ludlow School CommitteeNo. 23-1069 | 1st Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2023 | Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights | Favorable | 68 |
| Fowler v. Stitt | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2024 | Identity documents | Mostly favorable | 24 |
| Fowlkes v. Ironworkers Local 40 | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2015 | Employment | Favorable | 3 |
| Franciscan Alliance v. Becerra | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Health coverage & benefits, Federal executive actions | Adverse | 4 |
| Friends of George's, Inc. v. Steven MulroyNo. 23-5611 | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2023 | Drag & expressionalso Speech & religious objections | 54 | |
| G. G. v. Gloucester County School Board | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2017 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 1 |
| G.G. Ex Rel. Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2021 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 100 |
| G.S. v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2023 | Schools & education | 2 | |
| Gage Elon Hunter v. United Parcel Service, Inc. | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2012 | Employment | Adverse | 1 |
| Gays Against Groomers v. Garcia | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2026 | Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 5 |
| Geovanni Hernandez-Montiel v. Immigration and Naturalization Service | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2000 | Immigration & asylum | Favorable | 1 |
| Geri Bachman v. Hickman Mills School DistrictNo. 25-1772 | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2025 | 5 | ||
| 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 |
| Gordon v. Aetna Life Insurance Co. | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | 8 | |
| Griffith v. El Paso County, Colorado | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 65 |
| 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 |
| Helen Doe v. Thomas HorneNo. 23-16026 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Athleticsalso Schools & education | Favorable | 29 |
| Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2018 | Employment | Favorable | 9 |
| HM Florida-ORL, LLC v. Secretary of the Florida Department of Business and Profe | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | Drag & expressionalso Speech & religious objections | 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.