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.
27 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campos v. Cohen | 2022 | Identity documents | 5 | ||||
| Corbitt v. Taylor(MHT) | M.D. Ala. | District | 11th Cir. | 2021 | Identity documents | Favorable | 3 |
| Darcy Corbitt v. Secretary of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2024 | Identity documents | Adverse | 14 |
| de la Fuente Diaz v. Gonzalez ColonNo. 25-1638 | 1st Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Identity documents | 25 | |
| Doe v. Holcomb | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2018 | Identity documentsalso Immigration & asylum | Adverse | 1 |
| F.V. v. Barron | D. Idaho | District | 9th Cir. | 2018 | Identity documents | Favorable | 1 |
| Fowler v. Stitt | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2024 | Identity documents | Mostly favorable | 24 |
| Hersom v. Crouch | 2022 | Identity documentsalso Privacy & medical records | 15 | ||||
| In re FeldhausClosed · Georgia | Court of Appeals of Georgia | State | 2016 | Identity documents | 4 | ||
| Jansen v. Trump | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Identity documentsalso Federal executive actions | Adverse | 37 |
| 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 | ||
| Kayla Gore v. William LeeNo. 23-5669 | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2023 | Identity documents | Adverse | 76 |
| Kirk v. ArnoldClosed · Illinois | Circuit Court of Cook County | State | 2009 | Identity documents | 2 | ||
| Love v. Johnson | E.D. Mich. | District | 6th Cir. | 2015 | Identity documentsalso Privacy & medical records | Favorable | 1 |
| Marquez v. MontanaActive · Montana | Montana Supreme Court | State | 2021 | Identity documents | 42 | ||
| Orr v. TrumpNo. 1:25-cv-10313 | 1st Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Identity documentsalso Federal executive actions | 345 | |
| Radtke v. Miscellaneous Drivers & Helpers Union Local 638 Health, Welfare, Eye & Dental Fund | D. Minn. | District | 8th Cir. | 2012 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Employment, Identity documents, Family & parental rights | Favorable | 5 |
| Ray v. Director, Ohio Department of Health | S.D. Ohio | District | 6th Cir. | 2021 | Identity documents | Mostly favorable | 94 |
| Roe v. Johnston | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Identity documents | Adverse | 102 |
| Schlacter et. al. v. U.S. Department of State et. al. | 2026 | Identity documentsalso Federal executive actions | 37 | ||||
| Sean M. Brookings v. R.R. Denny Clunk, Judge, Stark County, Ohio | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2004 | Policing & criminal lawalso Identity documents, Family & parental rights | Adverse | 1 |
| Turner v. WhiteClosed · Illinois | Illinois Supreme Court | State | Identity documentsalso Policing & criminal law | 1 | |||
| United States v. Norman Varner | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2020 | Identity documentsalso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Zzyym v. Kerry | D. Colo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2021 | Identity documents | Mostly favorable | 62 |
| Zzyym v. Pompeo | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2020 | Identity documents | Favorable | 3 |
27 cases
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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Archive stats
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.