A new poll shows that most Americans approve of recent Supreme Court rulings allowing states to ban gender-transition treatment for minors, parents to opt out of LGBTQ story time for their children and authorities to require age verification for accessing adult websites.
In the SCOTUSPoll survey, 64% of respondents said states should be able to ban gender-transition medical treatment for youths, 77% said schools should give parents an opt-out option if they have religious objections to their children attending LGBTQ story time and 80% said age verification measures to access sexually explicit websites are a good idea. The survey was conducted before the court issued its rulings.
Those three rulings were among the major disputes considered during the conservative-led high court’s 2024-2025 term — each generating a 6-3 decision among the ideologically divided justices.
The gender-transition medical treatment case focused on Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers for minors seeking to