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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transgender Law Center v. United States Immigration & Customs Enforcement | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Immigration & asylumalso Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 2 |
| Turner v. WhiteClosed · Illinois | Illinois Supreme Court | State | Identity documentsalso Policing & criminal law | 1 | |||
| 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 |
| Umphress v. Hall | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objections | 1 | |
| Underwood v. Archer Management Services, Inc. | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 1994 | Employment | Mixed | 1 |
| Union Gospel Mission of Yakima Washington v. Brown, et al.No. 24-7246 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Employment | 30 | |
| 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. Daniel Mendoza, AKA Daniela Mendoza | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2001 | Policing & criminal law | Procedural no direction | 1 |
| United States v. Gutierrez-Romero | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2008 | Policing & criminal lawalso Prisons & detention, Immigration & asylum | Favorable | 1 |
| United States v. Jason Price | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2023 | Policing & criminal lawalso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| 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. 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Valerie Kloosterman v. Metropolitan Hospital | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Employment | Adverse | 12 |
| Vandiver Elizabeth Glenn v. Sewell R. Brumby | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2009 | Employment | Favorable | 12 |
| Vasquez v. Iowa Department of Human ServicesClosed · Iowa | Iowa Supreme Court | State | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | 23 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Vitsaxaki v. Skaneateles Central School District | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights | 19 | |
| Voe v. Mansfield | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits, Family & parental rights | 126 | ||||
| Volokh v. James | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objections | 83 | |
| Vroegh v. Iowa Department of CorrectionsClosed · Iowa | Iowa Supreme Court | State | 2016 | Gender-affirming carealso Bathrooms & facilities, Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 20 | ||
| Wade v. StarbucksNo. F079838 · Closed · California | Court of Appeal of California, Fifth Appellate District | State | 2020 | Employment | 4 | ||
| Wagoner v. WinkelmanNo. 25-6813 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | 8 | |
| Wailes v. Jefferson County Public SchoolsNo. 25-1341 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | 17 | |
| Washington Farmland Trust v. United States Department of AgricultureNo. 2:26-cv-02689 | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 1 | ||
| 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 |
| Weaver v. Tennessee Army National Guard | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2002 | Employmentalso Military | Adverse | 1 |
| Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2026 | Public accommodations | 18 | |
| Wetherell v. Alaska AirlinesClosed · Washington | Washington State Human Rights Commission | State agency | 2023 | Employment | 1 | ||
| Whitaker ex rel. Whitaker v. Kenosha Unified School District No. 1 Board of Education | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2016 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Procedural no direction | 41 |
| 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 |
| Willey v. Sweetwater County School District No 1 Board of TrusteesNo. 25-8027 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | 16 | |
| 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 |
| Woodlands Pride v. PaxtonNo. 23-20480 | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Drag & expressionalso Speech & religious objections | 42 | |
| World Professional Association for Transgender Health v. Commissioner Indiana Department of Correction | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Speech & religious objections | 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
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Docs |
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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.