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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Chicago v. Department of JusticeNo. 1:25-cv-13863 | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2025 | 28 | ||
| City of Fresno v. NoemNo. 3:26-cv-01535 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 15 | ||
| City of Fresno v. TurnerNo. 3:25-cv-07070 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 123 | ||
| City of Huntington Beach, et al. v. Newsom, et al.No. 25-3826 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights | 18 | |
| City of Salem v. MullinNo. 6:26-cv-01340 | D. Or. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 7 | ||
| City of Seattle, et al. v. Trump, et al.No. 26-5553 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 1 | ||
| City of Shoreline v. United States Department of TransportationNo. 2:26-cv-01311 | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 10 | ||
| Clark v. Hanley | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2023 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 26 |
| Clark v. Valletta | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Coe v. BlancheNo. 26-1886 | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 28 | |
| Committee of Five, Inc. v. SullivanNo. 1:25-cv-01668 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations | 28 | |
| Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Kennedy | 1st Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Federal executive actionsalso Gender-affirming care | Mostly favorable | 28 |
| Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. TrumpNo. 1:25-cv-12162 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 184 | ||
| Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. U.S. Department of AgricultureNo. 1:26-cv-11396 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2026 | 94 | ||
| Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. U.S. Department of EducationNo. 1:25-cv-13244 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 22 | ||
| Conforti v. St. Joseph’s Healthcare System | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits, Speech & religious objections, Public accommodations | 15 | ||||
| Cook v. PC Connection | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2010 | Employment | Adverse | 2 |
| Coombe v. Muse Management, Inc | Employment | 12 | |||||
| Corbitt v. Taylor(MHT) | M.D. Ala. | District | 11th Cir. | 2021 | Identity documents | Favorable | 3 |
| Council for Global Equality v. U.S. Department of StateNo. 1:25-cv-02615 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Federal executive actions | 4 | |
| County of Santa Clara v. NoemNo. 3:25-cv-08330 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 181 | ||
| Covenant Weddings LLC v. Cuyahoga County, Ohio | N.D. Ohio | District | 6th Cir. | 2020 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations | 2 | |
| Covington v. ReynoldsNo. 19-1197 · Closed · Iowa | Iowa Supreme Court | State | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | 14 | ||
| Crosby v. Reynolds | D. Me. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| Cross v. MontanaActive · Montana | Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County | State | 2024 | Gender-affirming care | 2 | ||
| Crouch v. Bowser | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Policing & criminal law | Favorable | 2 |
| Cruz v. Zucker | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2016 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Mostly favorable | 19 |
| Dale v. Department of DefenseNo. 1:26-cv-06617 | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | 19 | ||
| Darcy Corbitt v. Secretary of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2024 | Identity documents | Adverse | 14 |
| Darren Patterson Christian Academy v. Roy | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education | 12 | |
| David Ermold v. Kim DavisNo. 24-5524 | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Family & parental rights | 15 | |
| de la Fuente Diaz v. Gonzalez ColonNo. 25-1638 | 1st Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Identity documents | 25 | |
| De'Lonta v. Angelone | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2003 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| De'Lonta v. Fulmore | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2010 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 3 |
| De'lontra v. Angelone | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2003 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Dee Farmer v. Richard Haas, Edward J. Brennan, and L.E. Dubois | U.S. Supreme Court | U.S. Supreme Court | 7th Cir. | 1993 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Defending Education v. Olentangy Local School DistNo. 23-3630 | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2023 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections | 15 | |
| Defending Education v. SullivanNo. 1:25-cv-01572 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations | 43 | |
| DeGroat v. Townsend | S.D. Ohio | District | 6th Cir. | 2025 | Military | Adverse | 39 |
| DeGross v. Hunter | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Family & parental rights | 2 | |
| Dekker v. Weida | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1,052 |
| Denton v. Thrasher | N.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2020 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education | 2 | |
| Department of Justice Administrative Subpoena No. 25-1431-030 | D. Colo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 63 | |
| DeTore v. Local 245 of Jersey City Public Employees Union | D.N.J. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2024 | Employment | Adverse | 2 |
| Diamond v. Owens | M.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 2017 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 19 |
| Dimarco v. WYDOC Women's Center | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2007 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Dobre v. National RR Passenger Corp.(AMTRAK) | E.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 1993 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 1 |
| Doctors for America v. Office of Personnel Management | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Federal executive actions | Mostly favorable | 139 |
| Dodds v. United States Department of Education | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2016 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 1 |
| Doe ex rel. Doe v. Boyertown Area School District | 3rd Cir. | Circuit | 3rd Cir. | 2022 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 35 |
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.