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.

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123 of 664 cases match.

Cases
Case	Court	Level	Cir.	Year	Issue / type	Outcome	Documents
Jansen v. Trump	D.D.C.	District	D.C. Cir.	2026	Identity documentsalso Federal executive actions	Adverse	37
John Andrew Cuoco v. Kenneth Moritsugu	2nd Cir.	Circuit	2nd Cir.	2000	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	1
John Smith v. Jessie K. Rasmussen, in Her Official Capacity as Director of the Iowa Department of Human Services	8th Cir.	Circuit	8th Cir.	2001	Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits	Adverse	3
Johnson v. Fresh Mark, Inc.	6th Cir.	Circuit	6th Cir.	2004	Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities	Adverse	3
Johnson v. Sanders	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2024	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	6
Johnston v. University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education	W.D. Pa.	District	3rd Cir.	2015	Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities	Adverse	5
K.C. v. Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board	7th Cir.	Circuit	7th Cir.	2024	Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights	Adverse	120
Karen Frances ULANE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. EASTERN AIRLINES, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Defendant-Appellant	7th Cir.	Circuit	7th Cir.	1984	Employment	Adverse	2
Kastl v. Maricopa County Community College District	9th Cir.	Circuit	9th Cir.	2009	Employmentalso Schools & education, Bathrooms & facilities	Adverse	2
Kayla Gore v. William LeeNo. 23-5669	6th Cir.	Circuit	6th Cir.	2023	Identity documents	Adverse	76
Kosilek v. Maloney	D. Mass.	District	1st Cir.	2002	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	1
Kosilek v. Spencer	1st Cir.	Circuit	1st Cir.	2015	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	12
L. W. v. Jonathan SkrmettiNo. 23-5600	6th Cir.	Circuit	6th Cir.	2023	Gender-affirming care	Adverse	90
Lamb v. Maschner	D. Kan.	District	10th Cir.	1986	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	1
Lamb v. Norwood	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2018	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	2
Lexis Hernandez Avilez v. Merrick Garland	9th Cir.	Circuit	9th Cir.	2023	Immigration & asylum	Adverse	1
Marc Andrew Mario v. P & C Food Markets, Inc.	2nd Cir.	Circuit	2nd Cir.	2002	Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits	Adverse	1
Mark A. Campbell v. Kevin Kallas	7th Cir.	Circuit	7th Cir.	2020	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	21
Merlin C. Long v. Crispus C. Nix	8th Cir.	Circuit	8th Cir.	1996	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	3
Mid Vermont Christian School v. Saunders	2nd Cir.	Circuit	2nd Cir.	2025	Athleticsalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections	Adverse	16
Mirabelli v. Bonta	U.S. Supreme Court	U.S. Supreme Court		2026	Family & parental rightsalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections	Adverse	2
Mirabelli v. Olson	9th Cir.	Circuit	9th Cir.	2026	Family & parental rightsalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections	Adverse	210
Morris v. Fletcher	W.D. Va.	District	4th Cir.	2018	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	12
National Urban League v. Trump	D.D.C.	District	D.C. Cir.	2025	Federal executive actionsalso Speech & religious objections	Adverse	3
Navarrete v. Whole Foods	D.D.C.	District	D.C. Cir.	2025	Employment	Adverse	4
Nicholas Meriwether v. Francesca Hartop	6th Cir.	Circuit	6th Cir.	2020	Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment	Adverse	17
Nicolas Talbott v. United States	D.C. Cir.	Circuit	D.C. Cir.	2025	Militaryalso Federal executive actions	Adverse	90
Nicole Wittmer v. Phillips 66 Company	5th Cir.	Circuit	5th Cir.	2019	Employment	Adverse	3
North Dakota, State of v. Burwell	D.N.D.	District	8th Cir.	2021	Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits, Speech & religious objections	Adverse	86
Oakleaf v. Martinez	D.N.M.	District	10th Cir.	2018	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	1
Olivarez v. T-Mobile USA	5th Cir.	Circuit	5th Cir.	2021	Employment	Adverse	1
Parents Defending Education v. LinnMar Community School Dist.	8th Cir.	Circuit	8th Cir.	2023	Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights	Adverse	9
Paul Eknes-Tucker v. Governor of the State of AlabamaNo. 22-11707	11th Cir.	Circuit	11th Cir.	2022	Gender-affirming carealso Family & parental rights	Adverse	153
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
Poe v. DrummondNo. 23-5110	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	2025	Gender-affirming carealso Family & parental rights	Adverse	23
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
Praylor v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice	5th Cir.	Circuit	5th Cir.	2005	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	4
Raegan Kelly Kirkpatrick v. Seligman & Latz, Inc. And Associated Dry Goods Corporation, D/B/A Robinson's Florida	5th Cir.	Circuit	5th Cir.	1981	Employment	Adverse	3
Ramona HOLLOWAY, Appellant, v. ARTHUR ANDERSEN AND COMPANY, Appellee	9th Cir.	Circuit	9th Cir.	1977	Employment	Adverse	1
Reiyn Keohane v. Florida Department of Corrections Secretary	11th Cir.	Circuit	11th Cir.	2020	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	2
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
Robbin Amanda Bayse v. Ted Philbin	11th Cir.	Circuit	11th Cir.	2025	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	2
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
Rush v. Johnson	N.D. Ga.	District	11th Cir.	1983	Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits	Adverse	1
Santos-Zacaria v. Garland	5th Cir.	Circuit	5th Cir.	2025	Immigration & asylum	Adverse	2
Scott Gibson v. Bryan Collier	5th Cir.	Circuit	5th Cir.	2019	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.

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

Case name Court Level Issue / type Circuit Outcome Year ≥ Year ≤

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Case	Court	Level	Cir.	Year	Issue / type	Outcome	Docs

Every case in the corpus. Click a case name for its overview; click any column to sort, again to reverse. Each case has one main issue and may raise others (shown as "also…"); the Issue filter finds a case by either. Issues were checked case by case in September 2026. Level, circuit and outcome come from the coded caselaw dataset, so some rows are blank where a case hasn't been coded yet.

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Group by

Direct counts from the archive index — instant and exact. Counts are FILINGS (docket entries); the distinct-case figure is shown alongside.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Table view (stages, durations and circuits)

Expert witnesses

Filter Appears in

A curated roster of the recurring expert witnesses in this litigation, with every declaration, expert report, affidavit, deposition and trial-testimony document the corpus holds for each, grouped by case. Coverage is limited by what has been pulled: expert material is heavily attachment-borne, so a witness who testified in ten cases may show fewer here, and some documents are marked in a larger filing — the testimony sits inside an appendix or exhibit set rather than as its own entry.

Judges

Filter Appointed by Coded rulings

The record counts how the judge voted, not how the case came out. Dissents and concurrences are parsed from the opinions themselves ("NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge, dissenting"), so a judge who dissented is scored against the panel's result — without that, Judge Niemeyer read 4–3 favorable to trans claimants. Partial dissents are shown but left out of the tally. Votes come from separate-writing headings and from the opinion's own joinder block ("Judge Richardson wrote a dissenting opinion, in which Judge Wilkinson, Judge Niemeyer… joined"), so a judge who joins a dissent without writing one still counts. Judges are resolved to real people against the Federal Judicial Center directory using the deciding court — there are 32 federal judges named Smith, and two Judge Pryors on the Eleventh Circuit. 195 ambiguous name/court pairs were dropped rather than merged, and a case with no opinion text in the corpus keeps the panel result for want of anything better. Small numbers are small numbers: three rulings is not a tendency.