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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State of Oregon v. KennedyNo. 6:25-cv-02409 | D. Or. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 75 | ||
| State of Tennessee v. U.S. Department of Agriculture | E.D. Tenn. | District | 6th Cir. | 2023 | Federal executive actionsalso Schools & education, Public accommodations | Favorable | 14 |
| State of Texas v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2022 | Employmentalso Gender-affirming care, Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | Adverse | 23 |
| State of Washington v. United States Department of Health and Human ServicesNo. 6:25-cv-01748 | D. Or. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 45 | ||
| State of Washington v. United States Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentNo. 1:25-cv-00626 | D.R.I. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 137 | ||
| Stefanick v. Uinta County School District Number OneNo. 1:26-cv-00330 | D. Wyo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2026 | 11 | ||
| Stockman v. Trump | C.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2018 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 3 |
| Stone v. Trump | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2021 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 14 |
| Students and Parents for Privacy v. United States Department of Educat | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 20 | ||
| Students and Parents for Privacy v. United States Department of Education | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2016 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 1 |
| Sundstrom v. Frank | E.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2011 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 11 |
| Talbott v. Trump | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 426 |
| Texas American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers v. CreightonNo. 3:26-cv-01845 | W.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections | 11 | |
| Thakur v. TrumpNo. 3:25-cv-04737 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 294 | ||
| Tikkun v. City of New York | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2010 | Policing & criminal lawalso Prisons & detention, Privacy & medical records | Favorable | 48 |
| Toomey v. Arizona, State of | D. Ariz. | District | 9th Cir. | 2020 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 255 | |
| Torres v. National Precision Blanking | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 1996 | Employment | Procedural no direction | 1 |
| Trainor v. United States of AmericaNo. 1:26-cv-03029 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | 8 | ||
| Transgender Law Center v. United States Immigration & Customs Enforcement | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Immigration & asylumalso Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 2 |
| U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. IXL Learning, Inc | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | Employment | 12 | ||
| U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Rent-A-Center East, Inc. | C.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2018 | Employment | Favorable | 20 |
| U.S. Pastor Council v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2021 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Employment | Mostly adverse | 100 |
| Underwood v. Archer Management Services, Inc. | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 1994 | Employment | Mixed | 1 |
| United States v. Board of Education of Anne Arundel CountyNo. 1:26-cv-04499 | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2026 | 3 | ||
| United States v. California Interscholastic FederationNo. 8:25-cv-01485 | C.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 34 | ||
| United States v. MAINE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONNo. 1:25-cv-00173 | D. Me. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Athleticsalso Schools & education, Federal executive actions | 51 | |
| United States v. Minnesota Department of EducationNo. 0:26-cv-02078 | D. Minn. | District | 8th Cir. | 2026 | Athleticsalso Schools & education, Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 2 | |
| United States v. Southeastern Oklahoma State University | W.D. Okla. | District | 10th Cir. | 2017 | Employmentalso Schools & education | 61 | |
| United States v. USD 500 Kansas City, KansasNo. 2:26-cv-02519 | D. Kan. | District | 10th Cir. | 2026 | 2 | ||
| Updegrove v. Herring | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2020 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations | 27 | |
| Vazzo v. City of Tampa, Florida | M.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2019 | Conversion therapyalso Speech & religious objections | Adverse | 48 |
| Victim Rights Law Center v. United States Department of EducationNo. 1:25-cv-11042 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 59 | ||
| Vincenti v. USA Fencing AssociationNo. 4:25-cv-00850 | W.D. Mo. | District | 8th Cir. | 2025 | 22 | ||
| Washington Farmland Trust v. United States Department of AgricultureNo. 2:26-cv-02689 | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 1 | ||
| Whitman-Walker Clinic, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2021 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care, Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | Mostly adverse | 2 |
| Withrow v. United States of AmericaNo. 1:25-cv-04073 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 60 | |
| Wittkowski v. Levine | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Wittkowski v. Spencer | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 6 |
| Wolfe v. Horn | E.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2001 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mixed | 1 |
| Women in Struggle v. Bain | M.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2023 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Policing & criminal law | 3 | |
| Wood v. C.G. Studios, Inc. | E.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 1987 | Employment | Adverse | 1 |
| World Professional Association for Transgender Health v. Federal Trade Commission | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 116 |
| Young v. Adams | W.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2012 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 6 |
| Yukich v. Premier Fencing ClubNo. 2:25-cv-18011 | D.N.J. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2025 | 99 | ||
| Yukich v. USA FencingNo. 8:26-cv-04238 | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2026 | 13 | ||
| Z.J.W. v. King George County School BoardNo. 3:26-cv-00775 | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections | 84 | |
| Zayre-Brown v. North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections | W.D.N.C. | District | 4th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | 138 | |
| Zollicoffer v. Livingston | S.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2017 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 5 |
| Zzyym v. Kerry | D. Colo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2021 | Identity documents | Mostly favorable | 62 |
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.