transgender-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-442 Joseph J. Roybal, Sheriff, El Paso County, Colorado, et al. v. Darlene Griffith Tenth Circuit 2025-10-10 Pending Amici (1) constitutional-scrutiny due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection prison-policies transgender-rights 1. Whether a transgender inmate's challenge to sex-based prison policies is subject to heightened scrutiny under United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 5…
24-612 Paul A. Eknes-Tucker, et al. v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-04 Dismissed due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-treatment parental-rights transgender-rights Whether Alabama's Treatment Ban triggers heightened scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for …
24A539 Kevin Stitt, Governor of Oklahoma, et al. v. Rowan Fowler, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-12-03 Presumed Complete birth-certificate bostock-interpretation equal-protection gender-identity sex-discrimination transgender-rights Whether the Equal Protection Clause prohibits a state from maintaining a birth certificate policy that does not allow individuals to change their biol…
24-582 United States v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-26 Dismissed constitutional-law equal-protection gender-identity medical-treatment minor-rights transgender-rights Whether Alabama Senate Bill 184 prohibiting medical treatments for transgender minors violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
24-99 Dale Folwell, State Treasurer of North Carolina, et al. v. Maxwell Kadel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-30 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (2) equal-protection gender-discrimination gender-dysphoria healthcare-exclusion medical-coverage sex-based-classification sex-discrimination state-health-plans transgender-rights Whether a State's decision to decline to provide health benefit coverage for treatments leading to sex changes violates the Equal Protection Clause
24A79 Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Education, et al. v. Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete Amici (2) administrative-law education-department gender-identity sex-discrimination title-ix transgender-rights Whether the Department of Education's Title IX rule implementing protections for transgender students exceeds its statutory authority or violates cons…
24A78 Department of Education, et al. v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete Amici (2) administrative-law education-department gender-identity sex-discrimination title-ix transgender-rights Whether Title IX regulations implementing protections for transgender students in educational settings exceed the Department of Education's statutory …
24-38 Bradley Little, Governor of Idaho, et al. v. Lindsay Hecox, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-15 Granted Amici (26)Relisted (4) biological-differences biological-sex equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sex-discrimination sports-participation transgender transgender-rights women's-sports Whether laws that seek to protect women's and girls' sports by limiting participation to women and girls based on sex violate the Equal Protection Cla…
23-492 Jane Doe 1, et al. v. Kentucky, ex rel. Russell Coleman, Attorney General of Kentucky Sixth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (14) due-process equal-protection heightened-scrutiny medical-treatment parental-rights rational-basis-review sex-classification transgender transgender-rights Whether the Kentucky treatment ban on certain medical treatments for transgender minors should be subject to heightened scrutiny under the Due Process…
23-477 United States v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter for Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-06 Judgment Issued Amici (92)Relisted (13) constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gender-identity medical-treatment minor-rights sex-based-classification sex-classification transgender-rights Whether Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB1) violates the Equal Protection Clause
23-466 L. W., By and Through Her Parents and Next Friends, Samantha Williams and Brian Williams, et al. v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter for Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (14) civil-rights due-process equal-protection gender-affirming-care heightened-scrutiny medical-autonomy medical-care parental-rights transgender transgender-rights Whether Tennessee's SB1 violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause and Due Process Clause
22-6366 Brala Beverly v. Orange County Sheriff, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection gender-identity transgender-rights Is it constitutional for the County of Orange in California, and the Orange County Sheriff, as a matter of custom or policy, to pretend transgender pe…
21-5678 Shawn Kelly Thomason v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law court-practice due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure pronoun-usage transgender-rights Does the Eighth Circuit's failure to use a transgender litigant's preferred pronouns violate the Equal Protection Clause?
20-1163 Gloucester County School Board v. Gavin Grimm Fourth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Amici (3) biological-sex civil-rights equal-protection equal-protection-clause gender-identity restrooms school-discrimination title-ix transgender transgender-rights Does Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause require schools to let transgender students use multiuser restrooms designated for the opposite biologica…
20-5521 Wilbert Williams, aka Serenity Izabel Williams v. Beverly Kelly, Assistant Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment gender-dysphoria medical-treatment prisoners-rights transgender transgender-rights Whether gender dysphoria is a serious medical condition and whether there is a conflict between the 5th Circuit and other U.S. Courts of Appeals
18-1586 Scott Lynn Gibson, aka Vanessa Lynn v. Brian Collier, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment individualized-medical-evaluation life-threatening-medical-need life-threatening-need medical-treatment new-treatment prison-healthcare prisoner-rights transgender-rights universal-medical-acceptance Whether an Eighth Amendment claim for deliberate indifference to a prisoner's life-threatening medical need can be disposed of without any individuali…
18-8890 Carl Lee Jones v. Willie Smith, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection medical-treatment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent transgender-rights What is the appropriate medical treatment for individuals with gender dysphoria?
18-658 Joel Doe, et al. v. Boyertown Area School District, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Amici (11)Relisted (11) civil-rights constitutional-privacy due-process gender-identity privacy privacy-interest school-policy sex-discrimination title-ix transgender transgender-rights Whether a public school has a compelling interest in authorizing students who believe themselves to be members of the opposite sex to use locker rooms…
24A553 Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction v. Kayla Jean Ayers Sixth Circuit Presumed Complete cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment gender-affirmation medical-treatment prison-conditions transgender-rights Whether a state corrections department can be compelled to provide gender-affirming medical treatment to an incarcerated transgender individual under …