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.
118 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 |
| Allard v. Gomez | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 4 |
| Andrew Reid v. Rory Griffin | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| B. Braxton/Obed-Edom v. City of New York | S.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2019 | Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 1 |
| Barrett v. Coplan | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2016 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 6 |
| Beaulieu v. Aulis, et al. | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2016 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 7 |
| Benjamin v. OliverNo. 1:25-cv-04470 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | 61 | |
| Black v. Kendig | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2002 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 1 |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Chandler v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 61 |
| Christopher Beaulieu a/k/a Crystal Beaulieu1 v. New Hampshire Governor et al. | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2019 | Prisons & detention | Mostly adverse | 1 |
| Christopher Shorter v. United States | 3rd Cir. | Circuit | 3rd Cir. | 2021 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| Clark v. Hanley | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2023 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 26 |
| Clark v. Valletta | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Crosby v. Reynolds | D. Me. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| De'Lonta v. Angelone | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2003 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| De'Lonta v. Fulmore | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2010 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 3 |
| 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 |
| Diamond v. Owens | M.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 2017 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 19 |
| Dimarco v. WYDOC Women's Center | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2007 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Doe v. Balaam | D. Nev. | District | 9th Cir. | 2007 | Prisons & detentionalso Policing & criminal law | Adverse | 1 |
| Doe v. District of Columbia | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2016 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Doe v. Massachusetts Department of Correction | 2019 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care | 120 | ||||
| Doe v. McHenry | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | Unclear | 2 |
| Douglas W. Schwenk v. James Hartford Steve Sinclair Robert Mitchell,opinion | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2000 | Prisons & detention | Mixed | 1 |
| Driever v. United States of America | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2020 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| Druley v. Patton | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2015 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Duckett v. GarciaNo. 25-4969 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Prisons & detention | 1 | |
| Edmo v. Idaho Dep't of Corr. | D. Idaho | District | 9th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Estate of DiMarco v. Wyoming Department of Corrections, Division of Prisons | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2004 | Prisons & detention | Mixed | 5 |
| Eyerly v. TrumpNo. 1:25-cv-00582 | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Federal executive actions | 4 | |
| Farmer v. Carlson | M.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 1988 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Farmer v. Hawk-Sawyer | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 1998 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 16 |
| Farmer v. Perrill | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2002 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Farmer, Dee v. Moritsugu, Kenneth | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 1998 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Fields v. Smith | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2011 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| Fischer v. Washington Department of CorrectionsNo. 3:26-cv-06011 | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detention | 1 | |
| Gotti v. Raemisch | 2010 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | 2 | ||||
| Griffith v. El Paso County, Colorado | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2025 | Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 65 |
| Haverkamp v. Linthicum | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 4 |
| Hicklin v. Precythe (formerly Hicklin v. Lombardi) | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | 23 | ||||
| Iglesias v. True | S.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 216 |
| Jamie Gray v. Lisa FarmerNo. 26-5262 | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detention | 1 | |
| Jane Doe v. Todd Blanche | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | Mostly adverse | 336 |
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.