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.
180 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shauntae Anderson v. William CrouchNo. 22-1927 | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2023 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 160 |
| Smith v. Palmer | N.D. Iowa | District | 8th Cir. | 1998 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1 |
| Soneeya v. Spencer | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2012 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Spicer v. Terhune | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2003 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Stansel Prowse v. Dexter Payne | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 1 |
| State of California v. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesNo. 1:25-cv-12019 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | 98 | |
| State of Texas v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2022 | Employmentalso Gender-affirming care, Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | Adverse | 23 |
| State of Texas v. KennedyNo. 24-40568 | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2024 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | 5 | |
| State of Washington, et al. v. Trump, et al. | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions | 84 | |
| Sundstrom v. Frank | E.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2011 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 11 |
| Supre v. Ricketts | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 1986 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Tasha S. Maggert v. Craig A. Hanks | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 1997 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| The Religious Sisters of Mercy v. Xavier Becerra | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 6 |
| Thomas L. White v. Harold Farrier Crispus C. Nix | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 1988 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Toomey v. Arizona, State of | D. Ariz. | District | 9th Cir. | 2020 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 255 | |
| United States v. Skrmetti | U.S. Supreme Court | U.S. Supreme Court | 2025 | Gender-affirming care | Adverse | 88 | |
| Valerie Kloosterman v. Metropolitan Hospital | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Employment | Adverse | 12 |
| Voe v. Mansfield | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits, Family & parental rights | 126 | ||||
| Wagoner v. WinkelmanNo. 25-6813 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | 8 | |
| Whitman-Walker Clinic, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2021 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care, Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | Mostly adverse | 2 |
| Wittkowski v. Levine | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Wittkowski v. Spencer | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 6 |
| Wolfe v. Horn | E.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2001 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mixed | 1 |
| World Professional Association for Transgender Health v. Commissioner Indiana Department of Correction | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Speech & religious objections | 6 | ||||
| World Professional Association for Transgender Health v. Federal Trade Commission | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 116 |
| Yoakam v. Virginia Department of Corrections, et. al. | 2022 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | 1 | ||||
| Young v. Adams | W.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2012 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 6 |
| Z.A. v. Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Family & parental rights, Federal executive actions | 79 | |
| Zayre-Brown v. North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections | W.D.N.C. | District | 4th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | 138 | |
| Zinner v. Tennessee | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 24 |
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
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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.