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EDUCATION
Doe v. Horne

4:23-cv-00185 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: April 17, 2023

This is a case challenging an Arizona statute (A.R.S. § 15-120.02) that excludes transgender girls from participating in school-based sports teams that align with their gender identity. On April 17, 2023, the plaintiffs — school-aged transgender teens who were denied participation on several girls' school sports teams due to their assigned sex at birth — filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against the state's Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Arizona Inters…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Jones v. Trump

1:25-cv-00401 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

This case challenged the second Trump Administration's Executive Order 14166 (“Executive Order”), which mandated the transfer of transgender women incarcerated in federal women’s prisons to men’s facilities and denied access to gender-affirming care. On February 10, 2025, an adult transgender woman incarcerated in a women’s federal prison filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of the District of Columbia against President Donald Trump in his official capacity, the Depart…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Ireland v. Hegseth

1:25-cv-01918 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 17, 2025

Closed Date: May 16, 2025

This case challenged Trump’s Executive Orders 14183 and 14168 preventing transgender individuals from serving in the military, as well as the Department of Defense and U.S. Air Force memoranda implementing the orders. On March 17, 2025, two active-duty Air Force service members filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Judge Christine P. O’Hearn was appointed to the case. The plaintiffs sued Secretary of Defense, the Acting Secretary of the Air Force, a…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Talbott v. Trump

1:25-cv-00240 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2025

This is one of several cases challenging President Donald J. Trump’s January 27, 2025 executive order banning openly transgender people from serving in the military, which reversed the U.S. Armed Forces’ policy of permitting transgender people who meet military standards to serve. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of transgender rights-related legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) On January 27, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order directin…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS/CONTRACTING
Ladinsky v. Ivey

5:22-cv-00447 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 8, 2022

Closed Date: April 18, 2022

This case concerns a challenge to a state law criminalizing gender-affirming healthcare.  On April 8, 2022 several Alabama medical professionals, transgender individuals, and their parents (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) filed suit for declaratory and injunctive relief in the District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Plaintiffs sued the Governor, Attorney General and District Attorneys of Shelby and Jefferson County in their official capacity. Plaintiffs were represented by private coun…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Doe v. McHenry

1:25-cv-00286 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 30, 2025

This case challenged the second Trump Administration's Executive Order 14168, "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government" (“Executive Order”), which mandated the transfer of transgender women incarcerated in federal women’s prisons to men’s facilities and denied access to gender-affirming care. On January 26, 2025, three adult transgender women incarcerated in a women’s federal prison filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Equality Florida v. DeSantis

4:22-cv-00134 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 31, 2022

Closed Date: March 22, 2024

This case, filed on March 31, 2022, challenged Florida House Bill 1557, the Florida statute widely known as the "Don't Say Gay" law. H.B. 1557 banned any school instruction on "sexual orientation and gender identity." Equality Florida and Family Equality, two non-profit, public interest organizations, together with individual students, parents, and a teachers brought this suit against the State of Florida, Florida Department of Education, the Florida Board of Education, state officials in their…

Complaint

Complaint

March 31, 2022

Brief of the District of Columbia and the States of New Jersey, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, and Oregon as Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiffs

Equality Florida v. DeSantis

Aug. 3, 2022

Order on Motions to Dismiss

Equality Florida v. Florida State Board of Education

Sept. 29, 2022

Second Amended Complaint

M.A. v. Florida State Board of Education

Oct. 27, 2022

Brief of the States of Texas, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Caroline, Virginia, and West Virginia as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendants

Equality Florida v. Florida State Board of Education

Dec. 7, 2022

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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Doe 1 v. Thornbury

3:23-cv-00230 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky

Filed Date: May 3, 2023

In March 2023, the Kentucky legislature voted to override Governor Andy Beshear’s veto and enact Senate Bill 150 (“SB 150”). Set to take effect on June 29, 2023, SB 150 prevented healthcare providers from using puberty blockers and hormone therapy to treat transgender patients under the age of 18. Healthcare professionals who violated SB 150 would have their licenses revoked by the appropriate regulatory agency. The law additionally created a private cause of action for parties to recover damag…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Strawser v. Strange

1:14-cv-00424 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 11, 2014

Closed Date: Jan. 20, 2017

On September 11, 2014, two men, married in their church but not allowed to marry under Alabama law, filed this § 1983 lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama against the State of Alabama. The plaintiffs had applied, unsuccessfully, for a marriage license in Mobile County, Alabama. They initially represented themselves without lawyers. Later, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU of Alabama Foundation, Americans United for Separ…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Stockman v. Trump

5:17-cv-01799 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 5, 2017

Closed Date: Aug. 23, 2021

On September 5, 2017, three named and two anonymous transgender service members and a transgender rights nonprofit filed this lawsuit against the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, and other federal officials in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The case was transferred to the Eastern District that same day. The plaintiffs, represented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, sought declaratory and inju…