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
Sean M. Brookings v. R.R. Denny Clunk, Judge, Stark County, Ohio	6th Cir.	Circuit	6th Cir.	2004	Policing & criminal lawalso Identity documents, Family & parental rights	Adverse	1
Shauntae Anderson v. William CrouchNo. 22-1927	4th Cir.	Circuit	4th Cir.	2023	Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits	Adverse	160
Sommers v. Budget Marketing, Inc.	8th Cir.	Circuit	8th Cir.	1982	Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities	Adverse	1
Speech First v. McCall	5th Cir.	Circuit	5th Cir.	2025	Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education	Adverse	2
Spicer v. Terhune	9th Cir.	Circuit	9th Cir.	2003	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	1
Star v. Gramley	C.D. Ill.	District	7th Cir.	1993	Prisons & detention	Adverse	1
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
Supre v. Ricketts	10th Cir.	Circuit	10th Cir.	1986	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	2
Tasha S. Maggert v. Craig A. Hanks	7th Cir.	Circuit	7th Cir.	1997	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	1
Terry Sanders v. May Department Stores Company	8th Cir.	Circuit	8th Cir.	2003	Employment	Adverse	1
Terry Sanders v. May Dept. Store Co.	8th Cir.	Circuit	8th Cir.	2003	Employment	Adverse	1
The Religious Sisters of Mercy v. Xavier Becerra	8th Cir.	Circuit	8th Cir.	2023	Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Employment, Health coverage & benefits	Adverse	6
Thomas L. White v. Harold Farrier Crispus C. Nix	8th Cir.	Circuit	8th Cir.	1988	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	1
United States v. Jason Price	7th Cir.	Circuit	7th Cir.	2023	Policing & criminal lawalso Prisons & detention	Adverse	1
United States v. Norman Varner	5th Cir.	Circuit	5th Cir.	2020	Identity documentsalso Prisons & detention	Adverse	1
United States v. Shawn Thomason	8th Cir.	Circuit	8th Cir.	2021	Policing & criminal law	Adverse	2
United States v. Skrmetti	U.S. Supreme Court	U.S. Supreme Court		2025	Gender-affirming care	Adverse	88
Valerie Kloosterman v. Metropolitan Hospital	6th Cir.	Circuit	6th Cir.	2025	Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Employment	Adverse	12
Vazzo v. City of Tampa, Florida	M.D. Fla.	District	11th Cir.	2019	Conversion therapyalso Speech & religious objections	Adverse	48
Weaver v. Tennessee Army National Guard	6th Cir.	Circuit	6th Cir.	2002	Employmentalso Military	Adverse	1
Wittkowski v. Levine	D.D.C.	District	D.C. Cir.	2019	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	1
Wood v. C.G. Studios, Inc.	E.D. Pa.	District	3rd Cir.	1987	Employment	Adverse	1
Young v. Adams	W.D. Tex.	District	5th Cir.	2012	Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention	Adverse	6

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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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

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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

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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.