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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janay Garrick v. Moody Bible Institute | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2024 | Employmentalso Speech & religious objections | 53 | |
| Jane Anne Leyland v. Verne Orr, Secretary of the Air Force, James F. Egbert, Commander, United States Air Reserve Personnel Center, and James E. Christman, Surgeon, United States Air Reserve Personnel Center | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 1987 | Military | Adverse | 2 |
| Jane Doe 1 v. William Thornbury, Jr. | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2023 | Gender-affirming care | Adverse | 29 |
| Jane Doe 2 v. Patrick Shanahan | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2019 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Adverse | 1 |
| Jane Doe v. Hollidaysburg Area School DistrictNo. 3:26-cv-01142 | W.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2026 | Schools & education | 4 | |
| Jane Doe v. Mukwonago Area School District | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 17 |
| Jane Doe v. Todd Blanche | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | Mostly adverse | 336 |
| Janiah Monroe v. Steven Bowman | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 13 |
| Jansen v. Trump | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Identity documentsalso Federal executive actions | Adverse | 37 |
| January Littlejohn v. School Board of Leon County FloridaNo. 23-10385 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2023 | Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights | 141 | |
| Jessica Tapia v. Jurupa Unified School District | C.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | 13 | |
| John and Jane Parents 1 v. Montgomery County Board of EducationNo. 22-2034 | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2022 | Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights | Favorable | 21 |
| John Andrew Cuoco v. Kenneth Moritsugu | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2000 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| John Balsewicz v. Jonathan Pawlyk | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2021 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 9 |
| John Doe v. Catholic Relief ServicesNo. 25-1569 | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Employmentalso Speech & religious objections | 45 | |
| John Doe v. Jami Snyder | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2022 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Mostly adverse | 4 |
| John Kluge v. Brownsburg Community School CorporationNo. 24-1942 | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | Mostly adverse | 34 |
| John Smith v. Jessie K. Rasmussen, in Her Official Capacity as Director of the Iowa Department of Human Services | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2001 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 3 |
| Johnson v. City of ClevelandNo. 1:26-cv-02525 | N.D. Ohio | District | 6th Cir. | 2026 | 1 | ||
| Johnson v. Fresh Mark, Inc. | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2004 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 3 |
| Johnson v. Sanders | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 6 |
| Johnston v. University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education | W.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2015 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 5 |
| Jones v. Critchfield | D. Idaho | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education | 2 | |
| Jones v. Mahaniah | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Family & parental rightsalso Speech & religious objections | 2 | |
| Jones v. Trump | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 53 |
| Josephine Brown v. Aristedes Zavaras, Robert Furlong | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 1995 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mixed | 1 |
| Joslin v. U.S. Department of the InteriorNo. 1:26-cv-02029 | E.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 39 | ||
| K.C. v. Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | Adverse | 120 |
| K.L. v. Alaska Department of AdministrationNo. 3AN-11-05431 CI · Closed · Alaska | Alaska Superior Court, Third Judicial District, Anchorage | State | 2011 | Identity documents | 4 | ||
| Kalarchik v. MontanaActive · Montana | Montana Supreme Court | State | 2024 | Identity documents | 30 | ||
| Kansas v. HarperNo. 23-CV-000422 · Closed · Kansas | Shawnee County District Court | State | 2023 | Identity documents | 55 | ||
| Kansas, State of v. United States Department of Education | D. Kan. | District | 10th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Athletics, Federal executive actions | 4 | |
| Karen Frances ULANE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. EASTERN AIRLINES, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Defendant-Appellant | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 1984 | Employment | Adverse | 2 |
| Kastl v. Maricopa County Community College District | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2009 | Employmentalso Schools & education, Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 2 |
| Kayla Gore v. William LeeNo. 23-5669 | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2023 | Identity documents | Adverse | 76 |
| Keohane v. Jones | N.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 40 |
| Kesha Williams v. Stacey Kincaid | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2022 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care | Favorable | 11 |
| Ketcham v. Regence BlueCross BlueShield of OregonNo. 19CV31838 · Closed · Oregon | Multnomah County Circuit Court | State | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 1 | ||
| Kimberly Polk v. Montgomery County Public Schools | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2026 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | Favorable | 10 |
| King County v. TurnerNo. 2:25-cv-00814 | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 361 | ||
| King v. Sunrise Assisted LivingClosed · Maine | Maine Human Rights Commission | State agency | 2021 | Housing & sheltersalso Public accommodations | 2 | ||
| Kingdom v. Trump | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 302 |
| Kirk v. ArnoldClosed · Illinois | Circuit Court of Cook County | State | 2009 | Identity documents | 2 | ||
| Knight v. St. Joseph HospitalClosed · California | Superior Court of California, Humboldt County | State | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections | 1 | ||
| Konitzer v. Frank | E.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2010 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 1 |
| Koschnick v. EversNo. 2:26-cv-00833 | E.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2026 | Conversion therapyalso Speech & religious objections | 29 | |
| Kosilek v. Maloney | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2002 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Kosilek v. Spencer | 1st Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2015 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 12 |
| Kyle Fellers; Anthony Foote; Nicole Foote; and Eldon Rash, Plaintiffs v. Marcy Kelley, Superintendent of SAU 67; Michael Desilets, Athletic Director of Bow High School; Matt Fisk, Principal of Bow High School; and Bow School District, Defendants | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Athletics | Procedural no direction | 16 |
| L. M. v. Town of Middleborough, MassachusettsNo. 23-1535 | 1st Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education | Favorable | 25 |
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.