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.
125 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roberts v. Clark County School District | D. Nev. | District | 9th Cir. | 2017 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 29 |
| Rush v. Parham | N.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 1977 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1 |
| Ryan Karnoski v. Donald Trump | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2020 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 7 |
| 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 |
| Smith v. City of Salem, Ohio | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2004 | Employment | Favorable | 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 |
| Spectrum WT v. WendlerNo. 23-10994 | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2023 | Drag & expressionalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 175 |
| 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 |
| 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 Education | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2016 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 1 |
| Talbott v. Trump | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 426 |
| Tikkun v. City of New York | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2010 | Policing & criminal lawalso Prisons & detention, Privacy & medical records | Favorable | 48 |
| Traci Greene v. Gayle Bowles, Anthony J. Brigano | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2004 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| Transgender Law Center v. Ice | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2022 | Immigration & asylumalso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Rent-A-Center East, Inc. | C.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2018 | Employment | Favorable | 20 |
| United States v. Gutierrez-Romero | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2008 | Policing & criminal lawalso Prisons & detention, Immigration & asylum | Favorable | 1 |
| Vandiver Elizabeth Glenn v. Sewell R. Brumby | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2009 | Employment | Favorable | 12 |
| Wayne Powell, as of the Estate of Dana Kimberly Devilla v. Sunny Schriver, Superintendent Thomas A. Coughlin, III C.O. Lynch C.O. Crowley | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | Privacy & medical recordsalso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 5 |
| 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 |
| Zollicoffer v. Livingston | S.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2017 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 5 |
| Zzyym v. Pompeo | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2020 | Identity documents | Favorable | 3 |
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 | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Docs |
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Archive stats
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.