Court Cases

Court Cases Links

• Littleton v. Prange (1999) Negative: Texas appellate court negates 7-year marriage of Christie Lee Littleton because she was born male-bodied. Site also contains documents related to the litigation.
  
• Schwenk v. Hartford (9th Cir., 2000) Positive: a federal Court of Appeals found that discrimination "because one fails to act in the way expected of a man or woman" may violate federal sex discrimination laws.
  
• Rachel Horsham v. United Kingdom (1998) Contains the complete case documents of Rachel Horsham v. United Kingdom, judged at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France, July 1998.
  
• Hernandez-Montiel v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (9th Cir., 2000) Positive: A U.S. federal court of appeals finds that a transgendered Mexican woman "had a well-founded fear of future persecution and was entitled to asylum and withholding of deportation."
  
• Rosa v. Park West Bank (1st Cir., 2000) Positive: a federal Court of Appeals found that federal sex discrimination laws applies to an individual who was discriminated against for cross-dressing, and suggested that Ulane is no longer good law.
  
• Couple fights for son, 6, they say is girl at heart "A Westerville couple is fighting to regain custody of their 6-year-old boy, whom they said was taken by social workers because they let the child dress and act like he's a girl," a news story from the Columbus Dispatch.
  
• Columbia High Court Restricts Intersex Genital Mutilation (1999) Positive: two decisions restricting the ability of parents and doctors to operate on children born with atypical genitals. Press release in English, brief and opinion are in Spanish.
  
• In Re Robert Henry McIntyre (1998) Positive: Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturns lower court decision requiring a transsexual women to have surgery before legal name change.
  
• Ulane v. Eastern Airlines (7th. Cir., 1984) Negative: a federal Court of Appeals ruled a transsexual woman was not discriminated against "because she is female, but because Ulane is a transsexual." Upheld by the Supreme Court.
  
• Maffei v. Kolaeton Industries, Inc. (1995) Positive: a state court in New York City finds that the New York City Human Right Law's prohibition against "gender" discrimination applies to a transsexual man.
  
• Brockton MA Court Rules in Favor of Transgender Student (2000) Positive: A Massachusetts Superior Court ruled that a middle school may not prohibit a transgender student from expressing her gender identity even if that expression does not conform with the sex ascribed to her at birth.