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.
15 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew H. Warren v. Ron DeSantis | 11th Cir. | Circuit | 11th Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Policing & criminal law | Procedural no direction | 47 |
| Black v. Kendig | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2002 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 1 |
| Carcaño v. McCrory | M.D.N.C. | District | 4th Cir. | 2021 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education, Public accommodations | Procedural no direction | 90 |
| Donna McGrath Robert Jinks, A/K/A Tanya Jinks, A/K/A Tanya Medina, and Norbert Lopez, A/K/A Tara Lopez v. Toys "R" Us, Inc. | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2004 | Public accommodations | Procedural no direction | 3 |
| Kyle Fellers; Anthony Foote; Nicole Foote; and Eldon Rash, Plaintiffs v. Marcy Kelley, Superintendent of SAU 67; Michael Desilets, Athletic Director of Bow High School; Matt Fisk, Principal of Bow High School; and Bow School District, Defendants | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Athletics | Procedural no direction | 16 |
| M.K. v. Pearl River Cty Sch Dist | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Schools & education | Procedural no direction | 2 |
| Peter Vlaming v. West Point School BoardNo. 211061 · Closed · Virginia | 4th Cir. | Circuit | 4th Cir. | 2019 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment | Procedural no direction | 7 |
| Reed v. South Bend Nights, Inc. | E.D. Mich. | District | 6th Cir. | 2015 | Employment | Procedural no direction | 2 |
| Roy Mitchell v. Edward Wall | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2015 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 2 |
| Stansel Prowse v. Dexter Payne | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 1 |
| Sundstrom v. Frank | E.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2011 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 11 |
| Torres v. National Precision Blanking | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 1996 | Employment | Procedural no direction | 1 |
| United States v. Daniel Mendoza, AKA Daniela Mendoza | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2001 | Policing & criminal law | Procedural no direction | 1 |
| Whitaker ex rel. Whitaker v. Kenosha Unified School District No. 1 Board of Education | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 2016 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | Procedural no direction | 41 |
| Wittkowski v. Spencer | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2019 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 6 |
15 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
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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.