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.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School District, Wisconsin | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | Favorable | 5 |
| Parker Tirrell, et al. v. P Frank Edelblut, et al. | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2026 | Athletics | Favorable | 255 |
| 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 | ||
| Pascha Thomas v. City Schools of DecaturNo. 23-13467 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | 16 | |
| 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 |
| People v. DeLeeClosed · New York | New York Court of Appeals | State | 2013 | Policing & criminal law | 1 | ||
| People v. Rogers (Mich.)No. COA 346348 · Closed · Michigan | Michigan Court of Appeals | State | 2020 | Policing & criminal law | 1 | ||
| Perez v. BroskieNo. 3:22-cv-00083 | M.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2022 | Family & parental rightsalso Schools & education | 40 | |
| Perkins v. MontanaActive · Montana | Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County | State | 2025 | Bathrooms & facilities | 27 | ||
| 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 |
| Peter Vlaming v. West Point School BoardNo. 211061 · Closed · Virginia | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2019 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | Procedural no direction | 7 |
| PFLAG v. AbbottNo. D-1-GN-22-002569 · Active · Texas | Supreme Court of Texas | State | 2022 | Family & parental rightsalso Gender-affirming care | 43 | ||
| PFLAG v. Office of the Attorney General of TexasNo. D-1-GN-24-001276 · Active · Texas | 261st District Court, Travis County | State | 2024 | Privacy & medical recordsalso Gender-affirming care | 3 | ||
| PFLAG, Inc. v. Donald J. TrumpNo. 25-1279 | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions | 370 | |
| Philecia Barnes v. City of Cincinnati | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2005 | Employment | Favorable | 7 |
| Philip Rosati v. Dr. Igbinoso | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2015 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 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 | |
| Pinneke v. Preisser | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 1980 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1 |
| Pinson v. United States Department of Justice | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2022 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mixed | 8 |
| Planned Parenthood of the Heartland v. HilgersClosed · Nebraska | Nebraska Supreme Court | State | 2023 | Gender-affirming care | 10 | ||
| Poe v. DrummondNo. 23-5110 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Family & parental rights | Adverse | 23 |
| Poe v. U.S. Department of JusticeNo. 1:26-cv-01552 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | 14 | ||
| Poe, et al. v. Labrador, et al. | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Family & parental rights | 80 | |
| 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 |
| Praylor v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2005 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 4 |
| Prescott v. Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego | S.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Mostly favorable | 7 |
| Pritchard, et al. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of IllinoisNo. 23-4331 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits, Speech & religious objections | Mixed | 20 |
| QueerDoc PLLC v. United States Department of Justice | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions | 37 | |
| R.M.A. v. Blue Springs School DistrictClosed · Missouri | Supreme Court of Missouri | State | 2018 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education | 2 | ||
| Rachel Damiano v. Grants Pass School District No. 7 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | 18 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Reiyn Keohane v. Florida Department of Corrections Secretary | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2020 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 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 | ||
| Rhode Island Latino Arts v. National Endowment for the ArtsNo. 25-2113 | 1st Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 20 | ||
| 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 |
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.