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.
125 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A.C. v. Fred Kutruff | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2023 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 1 |
| A.C. v. Metropolitan School District of MartinsvilleNo. 25-1094 | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Athletics | Favorable | 37 |
| A.H. v. Minersville Area Sch. Dist. | M.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2020 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 7 |
| 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 |
| American Academy of Pediatrics v. James Uthmeier | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 34 |
| Anmarie Calgaro v. St. Louis County | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2019 | Family & parental rightsalso Gender-affirming care, Schools & education | Favorable | 9 |
| Ashton Whitaker v. Kenosha Unified School Distri | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2017 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 4 |
| Avendano-Hernandez v. Lynch | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2015 | Immigration & asylum | Favorable | 18 |
| B. E. v. Vigo County School Corporation | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2023 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 14 |
| B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of EducationNo. 23-1078 | U.S. Supreme Court | U.S. Supreme Court | 4th Cir. | 2023 | Athleticsalso Schools & education | Favorable | 306 |
| B.P.J. v. WV Secondary School Activities CommissionNo. 23-1130 | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2023 | Athleticsalso Schools & education | Favorable | 155 |
| Barrett v. Coplan | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2016 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 6 |
| Board of Education v. United States Department of Education | S.D. Ohio | District | 6th Cir. | 2016 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 4 |
| Bongo Productions, LLC v. Lawrence | M.D. Tenn. | District | 6th Cir. | 2022 | Public accommodationsalso Bathrooms & facilities, Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 63 |
| Bostock v. Clayton CountyNo. 17-1618 | U.S. Supreme Court | U.S. Supreme Court | 2020 | Employment | Favorable | 69 | |
| Carla Cruzan v. Special School Dist. | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2019 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities, Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 10 |
| Chandler v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 61 |
| Chiles v. SalazarNo. 23-1002 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2024 | Conversion therapyalso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 26 |
| Christopher Doyle v. Lawrence Hogan, Jr. | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2021 | Conversion therapyalso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 1 |
| Christopher Shorter v. United States | 3rd Cir. | Circuit | 3rd Cir. | 2021 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| Corbitt v. Taylor(MHT) | M.D. Ala. | District | 11th Cir. | 2021 | Identity documents | Favorable | 3 |
| Crosby v. Reynolds | D. Me. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| Crouch v. Bowser | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Policing & criminal law | Favorable | 2 |
| De'Lonta v. Angelone | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2003 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| De'lontra v. Angelone | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2003 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Dekker v. Weida | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1,052 |
| Diamond v. Owens | M.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 2017 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 19 |
| Dodds v. United States Department of Education | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2016 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 1 |
| Doe ex rel. Doe v. Boyertown Area School District | 3rd Cir. | Circuit | 3rd Cir. | 2022 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 35 |
| Doe v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island | D.R.I. | District | 1st Cir. | 1992 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1 |
| Doe v. District of Columbia | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2016 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Doe v. Ladapo | N.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Family & parental rights | Favorable | 447 |
| Doe v. Mattis | D.C. Cir. | Circuit | D.C. Cir. | 2018 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 2 |
| Doe v. McConn | S.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 1980 | Drag & expressionalso Gender-affirming care, Policing & criminal law | Favorable | 1 |
| Doe v. Trump | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 137 |
| Drew Adams v. School Board of St. Johns County FloridaNo. 18-13592 | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2018 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Favorable | 22 |
| Driever v. United States of America | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2020 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| Dylan Brandt v. Leslie Rutledge | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2022 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | Favorable | 5 |
| Edmo v. Idaho Dep't of Corr. | D. Idaho | District | 9th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Equal Emp't Opportunity Comm'n v. A & E Tire, Inc. | D. Colo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2018 | Employment | Favorable | 1 |
| Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2023 | Employmentalso Speech & religious objections | Favorable | 63 |
| Erika S. v. O'Malley | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2024 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care | Favorable | 1 |
| 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 |
| Fields v. Smith | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2011 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| Finkle v. Howard County | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2015 | Employment | Favorable | 2 |
| Flack v. Wis. Dept. of Health Servs. | W.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 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.