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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bongo Productions, LLC v. Lawrence | M.D. Tenn. | District | 6th Cir. | 2022 | Public accommodationsalso Bathrooms & facilities, Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 63 |
| Bostock v. Clayton CountyNo. 17-1618 | U.S. Supreme Court | U.S. Supreme Court | 2020 | Employment | Favorable | 69 | |
| Boyden v. Conlin | W.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Mostly favorable | 28 |
| Braidwood Management v. EEOCNo. 22-10145 | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Employment | Mostly adverse | 16 |
| Brandon v. Richardson CountyClosed · Nebraska | Nebraska Supreme Court | State | 2001 | Policing & criminal law | 2 | ||
| Brandon v. Sage Corp. | W.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Employment | Mostly adverse | 83 |
| Brian Tingley v. Robert Ferguson | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2022 | Conversion therapyalso Speech & religious objections | 18 | |
| Bridge v. Oklahoma State Department of Education | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 97 |
| Brittany Tovar v. Essentia Health | 1st Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2022 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Mostly favorable | 8 |
| Brooks v. Berg | N.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mostly adverse | 2 |
| Broussard v. First Tower Loan, LLC | E.D. La. | District | 5th Cir. | 2017 | Employment | Mostly adverse | 14 |
| Brown v. Alaska Airlines IncNo. 2:22-cv-00668 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2022 | Employmentalso Speech & religious objections | 31 | |
| Brown v. TrumpNo. 1:25-cv-00583 | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Federal executive actions | 4 | |
| Buckingham v. Federal Bureau of PrisonsNo. 2:25-cv-00701 | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Federal executive actions | 22 | |
| Cable News Network, Inc. v. TrumpNo. 1:26-cv-03287 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | 140 | ||
| California Education Committee v. O'ConnellClosed · California | Sacramento County Superior Court | State | 2009 | Schools & education | 2 | ||
| California Nurses Association v. MullinNo. 4:26-cv-10680 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 112 | ||
| California Tribal Families Coalition v. Azar | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2022 | Family & parental rightsalso Federal executive actions | Adverse | 42 |
| California Tribal Families Coalition v. Xavier Becerra | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | Family & parental rightsalso Federal executive actions | 3 | ||
| Camp Id-Ra-Ha-Je Association v. Roy | D. Colo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Bathrooms & facilities | 2 | |
| Campos v. Cohen | 2022 | Identity documents | 5 | ||||
| Carcaño v. McCrory | M.D.N.C. | District | 4th Cir. | 2021 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education, Public accommodations | Procedural no direction | 90 |
| Carl Charles v. Attorney General, State of AlabamaNo. 25-10973 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming care | 30 | |
| Carla Cruzan v. Special School Dist. | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2019 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities, Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 10 |
| Carroll Independent School District v. United States Department of Education | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Federal executive actions | 15 | |
| Carter v. District of Columbia | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2023 | Employment | Adverse | 10 |
| Casillas v. Daines | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2008 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 36 |
| Castaneda v. Oregon Department of EducationNo. 3:25-cv-01170 | D. Or. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 3 | ||
| Catholic Benefits Association, The v. Burrows | D.N.D. | District | 8th Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Bathrooms & facilities, Employment | 2 | |
| Catholic Charities of Jackson v. Gretchen Whitmer | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2025 | Conversion therapyalso Speech & religious objections | Adverse | 14 |
| Center for Constitutional Rights v. United States Department of JusticeNo. 1:26-cv-01821 | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | 4 | |
| Chandler v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 61 |
| Chavez v. Credit Nation Auto Sales, Inc. | N.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 2014 | Employment | Mostly adverse | 6 |
| Chelsey Nelson Photography LLC v. Louisville/Jefferson County Metro GovernmentNo. 22-5884 | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations | 8 | |
| Chelsey Nelson Photography LLC v. LouisvilleJefferson County Metro Government (k | W.D. Mich. | District | 6th Cir. | Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations | 2 | ||
| Chicago Housing Authority v. TurnerNo. 1:25-cv-12670 | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2025 | 11 | ||
| Chicago v. NoemNo. 1:25-cv-12765 | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2025 | 64 | ||
| Children's Hospital Medical Center v. U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 2 | ||||
| Chiles v. SalazarNo. 23-1002 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2024 | Conversion therapyalso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 26 |
| Chris Herring Photography LLC v. Herring | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2020 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations | 3 | |
| Christian Counselors Freedom Alliance v. EllisonNo. 0:26-cv-03780 | D. Minn. | District | 8th Cir. | 2026 | Conversion therapyalso Speech & religious objections | 3 | |
| Christian Employers Alliance v. EEOC | D.N.D. | District | 8th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 10 | |
| Christian Employers Alliance v. United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | D.N.D. | District | 8th Cir. | 2026 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Bathrooms & facilities, Employment | 11 | |
| Christian Healthcare Centers, Inc. v. NesselNo. 1:22-cv-00787 | W.D. Mich. | District | 6th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Public accommodations | 52 | |
| Christopher Beaulieu a/k/a Crystal Beaulieu1 v. New Hampshire Governor et al. | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2019 | Prisons & detention | Mostly adverse | 1 |
| Christopher Doyle v. Lawrence Hogan, Jr. | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2021 | Conversion therapyalso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 1 |
| Christopher Shorter v. United States | 3rd Cir. | Circuit | 3rd Cir. | 2021 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| CHRO ex rel. Peterson v. City of HartfordClosed · Connecticut | Connecticut Supreme Court | State | 2011 | Employment | 2 | ||
| CHRO v. Edge FitnessClosed · Connecticut | Connecticut Supreme Court | State | 2021 | Public accommodationsalso Bathrooms & facilities | 1 | ||
| City & County of San Francisco v. Alex Azar, IINo. 20-15398 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2020 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 9 |
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.