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HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
CODING IN PROCESS
Loe v. Texas

D-1-GN-23-003616 | Texas state trial court

Filed Date: July 12, 2023

Case Ongoing

In this case challenging Texas Senate Bill 14 (SB14), a statute categorically banning healthcare professionals from providing gender-affirming care to minors and barring state funding for medical treatment of gender dysphoria, the Texas Supreme Court upheld the statute under the Texas Constitution.  On June 2, 2023, the Governor of Texas signed SB14 into law. It was scheduled to take effect on September 1, 2023.  On July 12, 2023, five Texas families with transgender children, three medical pro…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Gore v. Lee

3:19-cv-00328 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: April 23, 2019

Case Ongoing

This case is about the right of transgender individuals born in Tennessee to change the gender marker on their birth certificates. On April 23, 2019, four transgender adults brought this lawsuit against the governor of Tennessee and the Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Health, challenging the State’s categorical refusal to change the gender marker on transgender people’s birth certificates. Represented by Lambda Legal and private counsel, Plaintiffs alleged that such a policy violate…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
L. W. v. Skrmetti

3:23-cv-00376 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Filed Date: April 20, 2023

Case Ongoing

On March 2, 2023, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed into law a bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender patients under the age of 18. Specifically, Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB1) prohibited any “medical procedure” from being performed “for the purpose of . . .[e]nabling a minor to identify with” a gender identity different from the sex they were designated at birth or “[t]reating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity.” SB1 ad…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Noe v. Parson

23AC-CC04530 | Missouri state trial court

Filed Date: July 25, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the health rights of transgender individuals. A group of parents and their transgender children, healthcare professionals, and LGBTQ+ organizations challenged the constitutionality of the "Missouri Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act" (SB 49), which prohibits the provision of gender-affirming medical care to individuals under 18 years of age, including transition surgery, the prescription or administration of cross-sex hormones, or puberty blockers. It also prohi…
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
GLBT Youth in Iowa Schools Task Force v. Reynolds

4:23-cv-00474 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2023

Case Ongoing

The Iowa governor signed SF 496 into law on May 26, 2023. SF 496 includes an Age-Appropriate Standard, an Identity and Orientation Prohibition, a Library Restriction provision (together, the Book Restriction provisions), and a Parental Notice provision. The Age-Appropriate Standard dictates that school libraries must contain “only age-appropriate materials” which cannot include “any material with descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act.” SF 496 defines sex act broadly and does not accoun…
EDUCATION
B. P. J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education

2:21-cv-00316 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: May 26, 2021

Case Ongoing

On May 26, 2021, the plaintiff, an 11-year-old transgender girl and student in Harrison County, West Virginia filed this lawsuit through her mother in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.  Represented by the ACLU of West Virginia, with attorneys from the ACLU, Lambda Legal and Cooley LLP, the plaintiff challenged an April 2021 state statute, H.B. 3293, that banned girls who are transgender from participating in school sports consistent with their gender identity. …
CHILD WELFARE
PFLAG v. Abbott

D-1-GN-22-02569 | Texas state trial court

Filed Date: June 8, 2022

Case Ongoing

On February 18, 2022, the Texas Attorney General issued Opinion No. KP-0401, finding that gender-affirming care, including gender-confirmation surgeries and hormone-replacement therapy, was child abuse as defined by the Texas Family Code § 261.001(1)(A). The section defines "abuse" as mental, emotional, or physical injuries that harm a "child's growth, development, or psychological functioning." Citing this opinion, on February 22, 2022, the Governor of Texas directed the state Department of Fa…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Lee v. Orr

1:13-cv-08719 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 2013

Closed Date: Feb. 21, 2014

Represented by Lambda Legal, the Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU of Illinois, and private counsel, Plaintiffs, four same-sex Illinois couples who wished to legally marry in Illinois, filed a class action suit against the Cook County Clerk on December 6, 2013, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violated their constitutional rights. The Plaintiff Class consisted o…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Sundstrom and Fields v. Frank

2:06-cv-00112 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: Jan. 24, 2006

Closed Date: May 23, 2012

On January 24, 2006, two transgender state prisoners in various Wisconsin prisons filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Division. Represented by the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., the ACLU Foundation, Inc., the ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation, Inc., and private counsel, Plaintiffs brought this lawsuit against various officials from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WDC) and staff from the various state prisons. Plaintif…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Poe v. Drummond

4:23-cv-00177 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: May 2, 2023

Case Ongoing

This case centers around Senate Bill 613, an Oklahoma bill passed in September 2022, which bans gender-affirming care for minors in Oklahoma. Specifically, SB 613 mandates that “[a] healthcare provider shall not knowingly provide gender transition procedures to any child.” The banned gender transition procedures include surgical procedures and drugs administered “for the purpose of attempted to affirm the minor’s perception of his or her gender or biological sex, if that perception is inconsist…