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.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Joseph Parish St. Johns v. Dana Nessel | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education, Employment, Public accommodations | Mixed | 10 |
| Stansel Prowse v. Dexter Payne | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2021 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 1 |
| Star v. Gramley | C.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 1993 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| State of Arkansas v. EDUCNo. 24-2921 | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 15 | |
| State of California v. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesNo. 1:25-cv-12019 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | 98 | |
| State of California v. United States Department of JusticeNo. 3:25-cv-04863 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 27 | ||
| State of Illinois v. Department of Health and Human ServicesNo. 1:26-cv-14051 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2026 | 18 | ||
| State of Illinois v. United States Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentNo. 3:26-cv-02262 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 12 | ||
| State of Kansas v. EDUCNo. 24-3097 | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Athletics, Federal executive actions | 61 | |
| State of Louisiana v. EDUCNo. 24-30399 | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 38 | |
| State of Maine v. National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNo. 1:25-cv-00324 | D. Me. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 8 | ||
| State of Maine v. United States Department of AgricultureNo. 1:25-cv-00131 | D. Me. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 35 | ||
| State of Minnesota v. TrumpNo. 0:25-cv-01608 | D. Minn. | District | 8th Cir. | 2025 | 56 | ||
| State of New York v. United States Department of Health and Human ServicesNo. 19-4254 | 2nd Cir. | Circuit | 2nd Cir. | 2019 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 11 | |
| State of Oregon v. KennedyNo. 6:25-cv-02409 | D. Or. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 75 | ||
| State of Tenn. v. Linda McMahonNo. 24-5588 | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2024 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 128 | |
| State of Tennessee v. Department of EducationNo. 22-5807 | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2022 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Athletics, Federal executive actions | 57 | |
| State of Tennessee v. U.S. Department of Agriculture | E.D. Tenn. | District | 6th Cir. | 2023 | Federal executive actionsalso Schools & education, Public accommodations | Favorable | 14 |
| State of Texas v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2022 | Employmentalso Gender-affirming care, Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | Adverse | 23 |
| State of Texas v. KennedyNo. 24-40568 | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2024 | Health coverage & benefitsalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | 5 | |
| State of Washington v. United States Department of Health and Human ServicesNo. 6:25-cv-01748 | D. Or. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 45 | ||
| State of Washington v. United States Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentNo. 1:25-cv-00626 | D.R.I. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 137 | ||
| State of Washington, et al. v. Trump, et al. | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions | 84 | |
| Stefanick v. Uinta County School District Number OneNo. 1:26-cv-00330 | D. Wyo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2026 | 11 | ||
| Stephanie Lynne Brown v. Washington Interscholastic Activities AssociationNo. 3:26-cv-05616 | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2026 | Athletics | 61 | |
| Stockman v. Trump | C.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2018 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 3 |
| Stone v. Trump | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2021 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 14 |
| Student v. Arcadia Unified School DistrictClosed · California | U.S. Department of Education OCR | Federal agency | 2011 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education | 4 | ||
| Students and Parents for Privacy v. United States Department of Educat | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | 20 | ||
| Students and Parents for Privacy v. United States Department of Education | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2016 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities, Federal executive actions | Favorable | 1 |
| Sundstrom v. Frank | E.D. Wis. | District | 7th Cir. | 2011 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Procedural no direction | 11 |
| Supre v. Ricketts | 10th Cir. | Circuit | 10th Cir. | 1986 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 2 |
| Taking Offense v. CaliforniaNo. S270535 · Not known · California | Supreme Court of California | State | 2021 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Housing & shelters | 1 | ||
| Talbott v. Trump | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 426 |
| Tasha S. Maggert v. Craig A. Hanks | 7th Cir. | Circuit | 7th Cir. | 1997 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Terry Sanders v. May Department Stores Company | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2003 | Employment | Adverse | 1 |
| Terry Sanders v. May Dept. Store Co. | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2003 | Employment | Adverse | 1 |
| Texas A&M Queer Empowerment v. MahomesNo. 25-20108 | 5th Cir. | Circuit | 5th Cir. | 2025 | Drag & expressionalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections | 13 | |
| Texas American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers v. CreightonNo. 3:26-cv-01845 | W.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections | 11 | |
| Thakur v. TrumpNo. 3:25-cv-04737 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 294 | ||
| The Downtown Soup Kitchen v. Municipality of Anchorage | 2022 | Housing & sheltersalso Speech & religious objections, Public accommodations | 45 | ||||
| The Religious Sisters of Mercy v. Xavier Becerra | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 2023 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Adverse | 6 |
| Thomas Horne v. USDC-AZT | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | Athleticsalso Schools & education | 1 | ||
| Thomas L. White v. Harold Farrier Crispus C. Nix | 8th Cir. | Circuit | 8th Cir. | 1988 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Adverse | 1 |
| Tikkun v. City of New York | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2010 | Policing & criminal lawalso Prisons & detention, Privacy & medical records | Favorable | 48 |
| Toomey v. Arizona, State of | D. Ariz. | District | 9th Cir. | 2020 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | 255 | |
| Torres v. National Precision Blanking | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 1996 | Employment | Procedural no direction | 1 |
| Traci Greene v. Gayle Bowles, Anthony J. Brigano | 6th Cir. | Circuit | 6th Cir. | 2004 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| Trainor v. United States of AmericaNo. 1:26-cv-03029 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | 8 | ||
| Transgender Law Center v. Ice | 9th Cir. | Circuit | 9th Cir. | 2022 | Immigration & asylumalso Prisons & detention | 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
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Docs |
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Archive stats
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.