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.
202 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams v. Federal Bureau of Prisons | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 3 |
| Adree Edmo v. Corizon, Inc. | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| Alexander v. Weiner | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 5 |
| Allan Josephson v. Toni Ganzel | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2019 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Employment | Adverse | 6 |
| Allard v. Gomez | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 4 |
| American Academy of Pediatrics v. Federal Trade Commission | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 44 | |
| American Academy of Pediatrics v. James Uthmeier | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 34 |
| American Academy of Pediatrics v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Federal executive actionsalso Gender-affirming care, Speech & religious objections | Mostly favorable | 23 |
| American College of Pediatricians v. BecerraNo. 1:21-cv-00195 | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2021 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care, Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 44 | |
| Andrew H. Warren v. Ron DeSantis | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Policing & criminal law | Procedural no direction | 47 |
| Andrew Reid v. Rory Griffin | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Anmarie Calgaro v. St. Louis County | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2019 | Family & parental rightsalso Gender-affirming care, Schools & education | Favorable | 9 |
| Anna Lange v. Houston County, Georgia | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 71 |
| Baker v. Aetna Life Insurance Co. | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2017 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Mostly adverse | 16 |
| Barrett v. Coplan | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2016 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 6 |
| Benjamin v. OliverNo. 1:25-cv-04470 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | 61 | |
| Bernier v. Turbocam, Inc. | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 89 | |
| Black v. Kendig | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2002 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 1 |
| Boe v. Marshall | M.D. Ala. | District | 11th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Family & parental rights | 1,215 | |
| Boyden v. Conlin | W.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Mostly favorable | 28 |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| Carl Charles v. Attorney General, State of AlabamaNo. 25-10973 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming care | 30 | |
| Casillas v. Daines | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2008 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 36 |
| 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 | |
| Children's Hospital Medical Center v. U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 2 | ||||
| Christian Employers Alliance v. EEOC | D.N.D. | District | 8th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 10 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Kennedy | 1st Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Federal executive actionsalso Gender-affirming care | Mostly favorable | 28 |
| Conforti v. St. Joseph’s Healthcare System | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits, Speech & religious objections, Public accommodations | 15 | ||||
| Covington v. ReynoldsNo. 19-1197 · Closed · Iowa | Iowa Supreme Court | State | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | 14 | ||
| Cross v. MontanaActive · Montana | Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County | State | 2024 | Gender-affirming care | 2 | ||
| Cruz v. Zucker | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2016 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Mostly favorable | 19 |
| De'Lonta v. Angelone | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2003 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| 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 |
| Dekker v. Weida | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1,052 |
| 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 | |
| Diamond v. Owens | M.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 2017 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 19 |
| Doe v. AbbottNo. D-1-GN-22-000977 · Active · Texas | Supreme Court of Texas | State | 2022 | Family & parental rightsalso Gender-affirming care | 35 | ||
| Doe v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island | D.R.I. | District | 1st Cir. | 1992 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1 |
| Doe v. Ladapo | N.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Family & parental rights | Favorable | 447 |
| Doe v. Massachusetts Department of Correction | 2019 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care | 120 | ||||
| Doe v. McConn | S.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 1980 | Drag & expressionalso Gender-affirming care, Policing & criminal law | Favorable | 1 |
| Doe v. McHenry | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | Unclear | 2 |
| Dr. James Dobson Family Institute v. Becerra | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Health coverage & benefits, Federal executive actions | 2 |
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.