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.
299 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equality Florida v. Florida State Board of Education | N.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2022 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections | 59 | |
| Erika S. v. O'Malley | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2024 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care | Favorable | 1 |
| Eure v. Sage Corp. | W.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2014 | Employment | Adverse | 3 |
| Evancho v. Pine-Richland School District | W.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2017 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Mostly favorable | 5 |
| Eyerly v. TrumpNo. 1:25-cv-00582 | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention, Federal executive actions | 4 | |
| F.V. v. Barron | D. Idaho | District | 9th Cir. | 2018 | Identity documents | Favorable | 1 |
| Fabian v. Hospital of Central Connecticut | D. Conn. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2016 | Employment | Favorable | 4 |
| Faith Action Ministry Alliance, Inc. v. Fried | M.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Federal executive actions | 2 | |
| 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 |
| Faulkner v. Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories Environment Testing, LLCNo. 5:26-cv-07493 | E.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2026 | 1 | ||
| Federal Trade Commission v. Mount Sinai Hospitals Group, Inc.No. 1:26-mc-00532 | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | 4 | ||
| Federal Trade Commission v. World Professional Association for Transgender Health, Inc. | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions | 99 | |
| Finkle v. Howard County | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2015 | Employment | Favorable | 2 |
| Fischer v. Washington Department of CorrectionsNo. 3:26-cv-06011 | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detention | 1 | |
| Flack v. Wis. Dept. of Health Servs. | W.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1 |
| Fox v. City Of Austin | W.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2022 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Employment | 2 | |
| Franciscan Alliance, Inc. v. Burwell | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Health coverage & benefits, Federal executive actions | Adverse | 185 |
| Freedom v. Chicago Womens Basketball Operations LLCNo. 1:26-cv-10686 | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2026 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Athletics, Public accommodations | 2 | |
| FreeState Justice v. Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionNo. 1:25-cv-02482 | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Employmentalso Federal executive actions | 10 | |
| Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender Pride/Twin Cities v. Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board | D. Minn. | District | 8th Cir. | 2010 | Drag & expressionalso Speech & religious objections | Adverse | 1 |
| George McIntyre v. Little Miami School DistrictNo. 1:26-cv-00351 | S.D. Ohio | District | 6th Cir. | 2026 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education | 105 | |
| Gilbert Baker Foundation v. U.S. Department of InteriorNo. 1:26-cv-01317 | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | 9 | ||
| Goe v. US Department of Health and Human ServicesNo. 1:26-cv-00803 | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2026 | 31 | ||
| Goodspeed v. Wyoming Governor | D. Wyo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2018 | Speech & religious objections | 3 | |
| Gottschalk v. City & County of San Francisco | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2013 | Employment | Adverse | 5 |
| GSA Network v. Houston Independent School DistrictNo. 4:25-cv-04090 | S.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections | 56 | |
| Hari v. Federal Bureau of PrisonsNo. 1:25-cv-04322 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | 1 | ||
| Hart v. Lew | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2013 | Employment | Mostly favorable | 1 |
| Hennepin County, Minnesota v. U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesNo. 1:26-cv-02460 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | 40 | ||
| Hennessy-Waller v. Snyder | D. Ariz. | District | 9th Cir. | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 108 |
| HM Florida-ORL, LLC v. DeSantis | M.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2023 | Drag & expressionalso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 87 |
| Horizon Christian Fellowship v. Williamson | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations | 1 | ||
| Housing Authority of the County of San Diego v. TurnerNo. 4:25-cv-08859 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 67 | ||
| Iglesias v. True | S.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Mostly favorable | 216 |
| In Re: Subpoenas Served On | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2023 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 1 |
| J.A.W. v. Evansville Vanderburgh Sch. Corp. | S.D. Ind. | District | 7th Cir. | 2019 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 5 |
| James v. Ranch Mart Hardware, Inc. | D. Kan. | District | 10th Cir. | 1995 | Employment | Adverse | 1 |
| James v. Rutherford County Library SystemNo. 3:26-cv-01355 | M.D. Tenn. | District | 6th Cir. | 2026 | 8 | ||
| Jane Doe v. Hollidaysburg Area School DistrictNo. 3:26-cv-01142 | W.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2026 | Schools & education | 4 | |
| Jansen v. Trump | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Identity documentsalso Federal executive actions | Adverse | 37 |
| Jessica Tapia v. Jurupa Unified School District | C.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | 13 | |
| Johnson v. City of ClevelandNo. 1:26-cv-02525 | N.D. Ohio | District | 6th Cir. | 2026 | 1 | ||
| Johnston v. University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education | W.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2015 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 5 |
| Jones v. Critchfield | D. Idaho | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education | 2 | |
| Jones v. Mahaniah | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Family & parental rightsalso Speech & religious objections | 2 | |
| Joslin v. U.S. Department of the InteriorNo. 1:26-cv-02029 | E.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 39 | ||
| Kansas, State of v. United States Department of Education | D. Kan. | District | 10th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Athletics, Federal executive actions | 4 | |
| Keohane v. Jones | N.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 40 |
| King County v. TurnerNo. 2:25-cv-00814 | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 361 |
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.