
Support and opposition for transgender medical treatment for minors, Dec 2024, Wash DC. Getty // Bloomberg
Q1. In 2023, Tennessee enacted a statute that forbade prescription of puberty blockers, hormone therapy, or other medical treatment allowing minors “to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex.”
Opponents sued TN on the grounds that the law amounted to unconstitutional discrimination against transgender people.
Last week in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court allowed the TN law to stand. In the majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the Constitution does not resolve disagreements as to which medical treatments are safe and efficacious, that the task was best left to state legislatures.
In the dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, "The Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims."
Did the Court rule correctly, that this is a matter for the states to decide?
Opponents sued TN on the grounds that the law amounted to unconstitutional discrimination against transgender people.
Last week in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court allowed the TN law to stand. In the majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the Constitution does not resolve disagreements as to which medical treatments are safe and efficacious, that the task was best left to state legislatures.
In the dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, "The Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims."
Did the Court rule correctly, that this is a matter for the states to decide?
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+
Yes
53%
64%
43%
95%
47%
12%
44%
41%
64%
55%
No
43%
32%
52%
2%
46%
83%
55%
50%
33%
43%
Don't know
3%
2%
4%
0%
6%
5%
1%
6%
2%
2%
Don't care
1%
2%
1%
3%
0%
0%
0%
3%
1%
0%
Q2. Do you think minors should have access to puberty blockers and hormone therapy?
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+
Yes
24%
15%
32%
0%
20%
50%
48%
32%
14%
14%
Yes, but only if parents give permission
20%
18%
22%
3%
27%
36%
15%
17%
20%
28%
No
51%
64%
40%
96%
47%
7%
35%
43%
62%
53%
Not sure
5%
3%
6%
1%
7%
8%
2%
8%
4%
4%
Don't care
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Q3. In her dissent, Sotomayor wrote that a recent rise in state and federal policies aimed at transgender individuals, including an executive order military ban by President Trump, showed they were a politically weak minority that needed judicial intervention to protect their rights.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett disagreed, writing that while transgender people may have experienced social prejudice, there was no expansive history of legally mandated discrimination akin to that based on such categories as race or sex.
Which do you think is true of transgender people?
Justice Amy Coney Barrett disagreed, writing that while transgender people may have experienced social prejudice, there was no expansive history of legally mandated discrimination akin to that based on such categories as race or sex.
Which do you think is true of transgender people?
male
female
rep
ind
dem
18-29
30-44
45-64
65+
Their rights have been violated
6%
5%
6%
0%
5%
11%
5%
9%
4%
4%
They have been victims of prejudice
9%
12%
6%
11%
22%
3%
13%
4%
10%
10%
Both
41%
27%
54%
2%
43%
81%
57%
46%
31%
40%
Neither
38%
46%
31%
75%
27%
3%
24%
28%
48%
42%
Don't know
3%
3%
2%
5%
1%
1%
0%
5%
3%
2%
Don't care
4%
6%
1%
7%
2%
0%
0%
7%
4%
2%
44% support banning transgender individuals from the military
47% said International Transgender Day of Visibility should be celebrated, 34% not
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