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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L. W. v. Jonathan SkrmettiNo. 23-5600 | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2023 | Gender-affirming care | Adverse | 90 |
| L.B. v. Premera Blue Cross | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | 43 | |
| L.E. v. Lee | M.D. Tenn. | District | 6th Cir. | 2024 | Athleticsalso Schools & education | Mixed | 129 |
| Lamb v. Maschner | D. Kan. | District | 10th Cir. | 1986 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Lamb v. Norwood | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Landerer v. Dover Area School DistrictNo. 1:24-cv-00566 | M.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2024 | Family & parental rightsalso Schools & education | 9 | |
| Lavarita D. Meriwether v. Gordon H. Faulkner | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 1987 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Lavigne v. Great Salt Bay Community School BoardNo. 24-1509 | 1st Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Family & parental rightsalso Schools & education | Favorable | 5 |
| Lawrence v. OPMClosed · Florida | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | Federal agency | 2016 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 2 | ||
| Lee v. Poudre School District R-1 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Family & parental rightsalso Schools & education | Favorable | 9 |
| Lema v. DavenportNo. 3:26-cv-04682 | D.N.J. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights | 13 | |
| Leontiev v. Corbett Sch. Dist. | D. Or. | District | 9th Cir. | 2018 | Family & parental rightsalso Schools & education | Favorable | 2 |
| Lewis v. High Point Regional Health System | E.D.N.C. | District | 4th Cir. | 2015 | Employment | Mostly favorable | 2 |
| Lexis Hernandez Avilez v. Merrick Garland | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Immigration & asylum | Adverse | 1 |
| Lindsay Hecox v. Bradley LittleNo. 1:20-cv-00184 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2020 | Athleticsalso Schools & education | Favorable | 181 |
| Lisa Barrett v. Warden, NHSP | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2003 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Locust Valley Central School District v. RosaNo. 2:25-cv-06937 | E.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2025 | 6 | ||
| Loe v. KansasActive · Kansas | Douglas County District Court, Kansas | State | 2025 | Gender-affirming care | 17 | ||
| Loe v. TexasNo. 23-0697 · Closed · Texas | Supreme Court of Texas | State | 2023 | Gender-affirming care | 26 | ||
| Lonnie Billard v. Charlotte Catholic High School | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2024 | Employmentalso Speech & religious objections | 1 | |
| Lopez v. River Oaks Imaging & Diagnostic Group, Inc. | S.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2008 | Employment | Favorable | 4 |
| Love v. Johnson | E.D. Mich. | District | 6th Cir. | 2015 | Identity documentsalso Privacy & medical records | Favorable | 1 |
| Lucas Rosa v. Park West Bank & Trust Co. | 1st Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2000 | Public accommodations | Favorable | 1 |
| Lucero v. Anoka-Hennepin School DistrictClosed · Minnesota | Minnesota Court of Appeals | State | 2020 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education | 2 | ||
| Luis Reyes-Reyes v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2004 | Immigration & asylum | Mostly favorable | 1 |
| Lundquist-Arora v. Fairfax County Public SchoolsNo. 1:26-cv-01768 | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | 37 | |
| M.A.B. v. Bd. of Educ. of Talbot Cnty. | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2018 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Mostly favorable | 1 |
| M.F. v. San Dieguito Union High School DistrictNo. 3:26-cv-04737 | S.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 2 | ||
| M.K. v. Pearl River Cty Sch Dist | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & education | Procedural no direction | 2 |
| Maddilyn Marcum v. Cookie CrewsNo. 25-5840 | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | 2 | |
| Manago v. Barnhart | E.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2004 | Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1 |
| Manchester v. Town of LudlowNo. 25-1502 | 1st Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | 6 | |
| Manning v. Hagel, et al. | 2017 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Military | 11 | ||||
| Manning v. OPMClosed | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (federal sector) | Federal agency | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 1 | ||
| Marc Andrew Mario v. P & C Food Markets, Inc. | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2002 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 1 |
| Marissa Darlingh v. Adria Maddaleni | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | Favorable | 2 |
| Mark A. Campbell v. Kevin Kallas | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2020 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 21 |
| Marquez v. MontanaActive · Montana | Montana Supreme Court | State | 2021 | Identity documents | 42 | ||
| Massachusetts Fair Housing Center v. The Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentNo. 3:26-cv-30117 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2026 | 23 | ||
| Massapequa Union Free School District v. RosaNo. 2:25-cv-05892 | E.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2025 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education, Federal executive actions | 16 | |
| Masterpiece Cakeshop Incorporated v. ElenisNo. 1:18-cv-02074 | D. Colo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2018 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations | 36 | |
| Maxwell Kadel v. Dale FolwellNo. 22-1721 | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2022 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 141 |
| Maxwell Kadel v. N.C. State Health Plan | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1 |
| McComb Childrens Clinic, LTD. v. FinkNo. 5:24-cv-00048 | S.D. Miss. | District | 5th Cir. | 2024 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care, Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 23 | |
| McCord v. South Madison Community School Corporation | S.D. Ind. | District | 7th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | 2 | |
| McCrory v. United States of America | E.D.N.C. | District | 4th Cir. | 2016 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Employment, Federal executive actions | 16 | |
| McMahon v. World Vision Inc. | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2024 | Employmentalso Speech & religious objections | 1 | |
| McMath v. Duval County Public Schools | M.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections | 2 | |
| Melissa Batie-Smoose v. The Board of Trustees of the California State UniversityNo. 2:25-cv-08957 | C.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Employmentalso Athletics | 3 | |
| Merlin C. Long v. Crispus C. Nix | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 1996 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 3 |
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.