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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)

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Doe v. Austin

2:22-cv-00368 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 2022

Closed Date: Jan. 8, 2025

In this case challenging the constitutionality of a 1976 federal statute that prohibits the Military Health System from providing coverage for medically necessary surgical treatments for gender dysphoria for dependents of service members, a federal district court judge held that the prohibition violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.  On December 1, 2022, a ​transgender woman receiving health insurance through the U.S. military's TRICARE program as a dependent of a former se…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

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

HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Doe v. Ladapo

4:23-cv-00114 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: March 23, 2023

This is a lawsuit brought by transgender adolescents and their parents challenging Florida's ban on medical care for transgender minors (Board of Medicine, Rule 64B8-9.019, Fla. Admin. Code; and Board of Osteopathic Medicine, Rule 64B15-14.014, Fla. Admin. Code). The challenged bans prohibited the use of puberty blockers to stop or delay normal puberty as well as the use of hormones or hormone antagonists in order to affirm a person's perception of his or her sex if that perception was inconsis…
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…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Eknes-Tucker v. Ivey

2:22-cv-00184 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: April 19, 2022

This case is about Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (“the Act”), which subjects anyone who “causes” a transgender minor to receive prohibited gender-affirming medical care to criminal penalties. Four transgender children and their parents, two medical professionals, and a reverend filed this lawsuit on April 19, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. The plaintiffs—represented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, GLBTQ Legal Advocates &…
PRISON CONDITIONS
Kosilek v. Spencer

1:00-cv-12455 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Dec. 12, 2000

Closed Date: Oct. 14, 2022

On December 12, 2000, a transgender person who was incarcerated at the Massachusetts Correction Institute in Norfolk filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Filing pro se, the plaintiff sued the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (the "DOC"), the Correctional Medical Services, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The incarcerated person sought injunctive relief and damages to be determined by the jury, alleging …