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.
607 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Michelle Fitzgerald v. Roncalli High School, Inc. | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2023 | Employmentalso Speech & religious objections | 1 | |
| Michelle-Lael Norsworthy v. Jeffrey Beard | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2015 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mixed | 6 |
| Mid Vermont Christian School v. Bouchey | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2024 | Athleticsalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections | 16 | |
| Mid Vermont Christian School v. Saunders | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2025 | Athleticsalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections | Adverse | 16 |
| Miles v. New York University | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 1997 | Schools & education | Favorable | 1 |
| Miller v. Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota | D. Minn. | District | 8th Cir. | 2019 | Employment | 67 | |
| Mirabelli v. Bonta | U.S. Supreme Court | U.S. Supreme Court | 2026 | Family & parental rightsalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections | Adverse | 2 | |
| Mirabelli v. Olson | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Family & parental rightsalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections | Adverse | 210 |
| Miranda Stovall v. Jefferson Co, KY Bd of Ed | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & education | 1 | |
| Misanin v. Wilson | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | 27 | ||||
| Mittereder v. MullinNo. 1:25-cv-01991 | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | 3 | ||
| Moe v. TrumpNo. 1:25-cv-10195 | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Federal executive actions | 81 | |
| Moms for Liberty - Yolo County v. Yolo County | E.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objections | 2 | |
| Moms for Liberty v. School District of the Chathams Board of EducationNo. 2:26-cv-10863 | D.N.J. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights | 2 | |
| Moore v. Three Rivers Regional Library SystemNo. 5:26-cv-01141 | S.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 2026 | 6 | ||
| Morris v. Fletcher | W.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 12 |
| Morrison v. City of PhiladelphiaNo. 2:26-cv-08114 | E.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2026 | 1 | ||
| Musgrove v. The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia | M.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 2 | |
| Nancy Arabillas Morales v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2007 | Immigration & asylum | Mostly favorable | 4 |
| Naples Pride v. City of NaplesNo. 25-11756 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2025 | Drag & expressionalso Speech & religious objections | 3 | |
| National Alliance to End Homelessness v. TurnerNo. 1:25-cv-00447 | D.R.I. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 37 | ||
| National Council of Nonprofits v. McMahonNo. 1:25-cv-13242 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 153 | ||
| National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association v. Kennedy, Jr.No. 1:26-cv-01684 | M.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2026 | 30 | ||
| National Parks Conservation Association v. Department of the InteriorNo. 1:26-cv-10877 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2026 | 57 | ||
| National Urban League v. Trump | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Federal executive actionsalso Speech & religious objections | Adverse | 3 |
| Navarrete v. Whole Foods | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Employment | Adverse | 4 |
| Neese v. BecerraNo. 23-10078 | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2023 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 50 |
| New Hope Family Services, Inc. v. Poole | N.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2018 | Family & parental rightsalso Speech & religious objections | 2 | |
| New Richmond Parents for Strong Schools, UA v. School District of New Richmond Board of EducationNo. 3:26-cv-00316 | W.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2026 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education | 26 | |
| Nicholas Meriwether v. Francesca Hartop | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2020 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | Adverse | 17 |
| Nicolas Talbott v. United States | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Adverse | 90 |
| Nicole Wittmer v. Phillips 66 Company | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2019 | Employment | Adverse | 3 |
| North Dakota, State of v. Burwell | D.N.D. | District | 8th Cir. | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits, Speech & religious objections | Adverse | 86 |
| O'Neill v. RuddNo. 1:25-cv-04228 | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | 27 | ||
| Oakleaf v. Martinez | D.N.M. | District | 10th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Olivarez v. T-Mobile USA | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2021 | Employment | Adverse | 1 |
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.