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.
299 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parker v. Strawser Constr., Inc. | S.D. Ohio | District | 6th Cir. | 2018 | Employment | Mostly favorable | 1 |
| Parts v. Swarthmore CollegeNo. 2:25-cv-04702 | E.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2025 | 13 | ||
| Perez v. BroskieNo. 3:22-cv-00083 | M.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2022 | Family & parental rightsalso Schools & education | 40 | |
| Perlot v. Green | D. Idaho | District | 9th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education | 2 | |
| 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 |
| Phillips v. Michigan Department of Corrections | W.D. Mich. | District | 6th Cir. | 1990 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Pickup v. Biden | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2022 | Other | 2 | |
| Pinson v. United States Department of Justice | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2022 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mixed | 8 |
| Poe v. U.S. Department of JusticeNo. 1:26-cv-01552 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | 14 | ||
| Port of Seattle v. BlancheNo. 2:26-cv-03301 | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 6 | ||
| Powell v. Cusimano | D. Conn. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2004 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care | Adverse | 1 |
| Powell v. Read's, Inc. | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 1977 | Employment | Adverse | 1 |
| Prescott v. Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego | S.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Mostly favorable | 7 |
| Radtke v. Miscellaneous Drivers & Helpers Union Local 638 Health, Welfare, Eye & Dental Fund | D. Minn. | District | 8th Cir. | 2012 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Employment, Identity documents, Family & parental rights | Favorable | 5 |
| Rapides Parish v. Health & Human Services | W.D. La. | District | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Federal executive actionsalso Schools & education, Health coverage & benefits | 2 | |
| Ray v. Antioch Unified School District | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2000 | Schools & education | Mostly favorable | 1 |
| Ray v. Director, Ohio Department of Health | S.D. Ohio | District | 6th Cir. | 2021 | Identity documents | Mostly favorable | 94 |
| Reed v. South Bend Nights, Inc. | E.D. Mich. | District | 6th Cir. | 2015 | Employment | Procedural no direction | 2 |
| Rhea v. Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. | W.D. Tenn. | District | 6th Cir. | 2005 | Employment | Mostly favorable | 4 |
| Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence v. Kennedy, Jr.No. 1:25-cv-00342 | D.R.I. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 74 | ||
| Rhode Island Coalition for Children and Families v. Kennedy, Jr.No. 1:26-cv-00814 | D.R.I. | District | 1st Cir. | 2026 | 1 | ||
| Richardson v. Smith | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2024 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 9 |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Shaw v. District of Columbia | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2016 | Policing & criminal lawalso Prisons & detention | Mostly adverse | 3 |
| Smith v. Palmer | N.D. Iowa | District | 8th Cir. | 1998 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1 |
| Soneeya v. Spencer | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2012 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Southern Utah Drag Stars v. City of St. George | D. Utah | District | 10th Cir. | 2023 | Drag & expressionalso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 30 |
| Speech First, Inc v. Wintersteen | S.D. Iowa | District | 8th Cir. | 2020 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education | 2 | |
| Star v. Gramley | C.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 1993 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| State of California v. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesNo. 1:25-cv-12019 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | 98 | |
| State of California v. United States Department of JusticeNo. 3:25-cv-04863 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 27 | ||
| State of Illinois v. Department of Health and Human ServicesNo. 1:26-cv-14051 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2026 | 18 | ||
| State of Illinois v. United States Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentNo. 3:26-cv-02262 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 12 | ||
| State of Maine v. National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNo. 1:25-cv-00324 | D. Me. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 8 | ||
| State of Maine v. United States Department of AgricultureNo. 1:25-cv-00131 | D. Me. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 35 | ||
| State of Minnesota v. TrumpNo. 0:25-cv-01608 | D. Minn. | District | 8th Cir. | 2025 | 56 |
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.