AUGUST 2024

AUGUST 26, 2024 - VICTORY IN FLORIDA CUT SHORT. A split panel on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals blocked enforcement the district court's landmark June 2024 decision, which found that the state's draconian trans healthcare restrictions were unconstitutional. The restrictions were put into effect immediately, leaving countless trans Floridians without access to care.

AUGUST 15, 2024 - SETBACK IN 11TH CIRCUIT. The appeals court granted the state’s request for reconsideration and vacated the panel’s recent landmark opinion upholding the rights of trans employees to have gender-affirming care costs covered by their employers.

AUGUST 6, 2024 - LOSS IN OHIO STATE COURT. The Franklin County Court of Common Pleas upheld a law banning trans youth from accessing gender-affirming care and prohibiting trans women and girls from participating in school sports. Plaintiffs have filed a notice of appeal.

JULY 2024

JULY 12, 2024 - DEFENDANTS APPEAL FOURTH CIRCUIT WIN TO THE SUPREME COURT. Defendants filed an appeal with the high court, seeing to overturn the April 2024 Fourth Circuit decision striking down a West Virginia law preventing transgender youth from participating equally in school sports.

June 2024

JUNE 24, 2024 - SUPREME COURT GRANTS CERT IN TRANS YOUTH HEALTHCARE CASES. The high Court announced that it would hear oral arguments in cases involving a trans youth healthcare bans in Tennessee and Kentucky. Arguments are expected to be held in the fall.

JUNE 11, 2024 - WIN IN FLORIDA. A Florida district court ruled that the state law, which banned gender-affirming care for trans youth and severely restricted care for trans adults, is unconstitutional.

JUNE 7, 2024 - COURT GRANTS MOTION TO STAY. The district court, on remand from a landmark Fourth Circuit decision finding that West Virginia’s trans athlete ban violated Title IX, granted defendants’ motion to stay the case pending resolution of their appeal to the Supreme Court.

JUNE 3, 2024 - PETITION FOR REHEARING IN LANDMARK 11TH CIRCUIT CASE. The defendants, hot off of a major loss in last month’s trans employee healthcare case, asked the full 11th Circuit Court to reconsider the decision. Attorneys general from 23 states have joined the request.

MAY 2024

MAY 23, 2024 - DEFENDANTS ANNOUNCE PLAN TO APPEAL LANDMARK FOURTH CIRCUIT DECISION TO SUPREME COURT. The defendants in a Fourth Circuit case, who in April of 2024 lost a Title IX challenge to the West Virginia trans athletes ban, have asked the district court to stay proceedings while they petition the Supreme Court for review of the appellate court’s landmark decision. The petition has not yet been filed.

MAY 16, 2024 - RELISTING BY THE SUPREME COURT. The Supreme Court “relisted” the plaintiffs’ petition for review of the Sixth Circuit’s decision allowing Tennessee’s discriminatory trans healthcare ban to go into effect. This move may signal the Justices’ desire to take up the case for review. In the meantime, Tennessee is permitted to enforce a trans youth healthcare ban that will severely harm trans youth across the state.

MAY 13, 2024 - WIN IN THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT. The appeals court upheld the district court decision finding that the exclusion of gender-affirming care in the County’s employee healthcare plan violated Title VII. The decision also affirmed the district court’s granting of a permanent injunction prohibiting the County from from enforcing the discriminatory exclusion.

MAY 3, 2024 - GREAT NEWS IN OHIO. The court of common pleas, which previously issued (and twice extended) a restraining order prohibiting Ohio from enacting a discriminatory trans youth healthcare & sports ban, ordered a hearing on the case’s merits and the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction to begin on July 15, 2024. The order also stayed proceedings on the defendants’ motion to dismiss.

APRIL 2024

APRIL 30, 2024 - WIN IN INDIANA. The district court dismissed a suit from a Christian former teacher who objected to using gender-affirming names for trans students, ruling that letting him refer to students by last names would be an undue burden under the new standard articulated by the U.S. Supreme Court in June.

APRIL 30, 2024 - WIN IN OHIO. The Franklin County Court of Common Pleas granted the plaintiffs’ motion for a Temporary Restraining Order, preventing Ohio from enforcing bans on trans healthcare and trans youth in school sports.

APRIL 29, 2024 - WIN IN THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. The appeals court handed down a joint en banc opinion in Kadel and Anderson, finding that healthcare exclusions for gender affirming care violate the Constitution and federal law.

APRIL 29, 2024 - SETBACK IN THE NINTH CIRCUIT. The appellate court in Hecox v. Little withdrew its August 2023 decision upholding the district court’s injunction in light of the Supreme Court’s STAY ORDER in Poe v. Labrador. The injunction prohibiting Idaho from enacting a discriminatory sports ban is still in effect for the time being.

APRIL 16, 2024 - WIN IN THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a West Virginia law preventing transgender youth from participating equally in school sports violates Title IX.

APRIL 16, 2024 - WIN IN NORTH CAROLINA. The district court ruled that the state violated a trans female prisoner’s Eighth Amendment rights by failing to house her in a female facility or provide medical care related to her gender dysphoria.

APRIL 15, 2024 - LOSS IN IDAHO. The Supreme Court temporarily revived an Idaho law banning gender-affirming care for minors, the first such intervention by the high Court on the issue of gender-affirming care.