According to a new poll from Center Square, 47% of registered voters believe that children should not be allowed to prescribe adolescent blockers under any circumstances.
Voice votes for Center Square voters It turns out that 29% of voters believe that doctors should be allowed to prescribe adolescent blockers to their children with parental consent. Without parental approval, that number will drop to 10%. Another 14% of Americans said they were unsure about the issue.
Democrats were more open to minor adolescent blockers than Republicans. Among Democrats, 41% said doctors should be allowed to prescribe adolescent blockers under parental supervision. For Republicans, this figure was 16%.
Of Republicans, 68% said doctors should not be allowed to prescribe adolescent blockers to their children, regardless of how their parents feel.
Adolescent blockers have become more prominent as a way to help with gender transitions, but they also have other uses. Treatment of precocious adolescents – breast development before 8 years old or testicular growth before 9 years old – is one such use. Doctors can also use adolescent blockers along with growth hormone to deal with short statures.
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The American Medical Association and other specialist medicine generally support the use of such drugs. Still, some states have passed laws that would stop children’s use of adolescent blockers, particularly due to gender transitions.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office to limit transgender medicines and surgeries for minors. Supporters have posed legal challenges to some of the state-level bans. The US Supreme Court is considering this issue.
The poll was conducted by Noble Predictive Insights from April 15th to 18th, 2025, and surveyed registered voters nationwide via an opt-in online panel and text-to-web mobile phone message. The sample included 2,527 respondents consisting of 1,089 Republicans, 1,187 Democrats and 251 true independents. It is one of only six national follow-ups in the US
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The polls put each party independently and weighted itself, including Republicans, Democrats and true independences. In other words, the Republican subsample is weighted, so it matches the national Republican population, and the same applies to Democrats and true independences. Additional weighting variables include age, region, gender, education, and race/ethnicity.
The margin of error was +/- 2.0%.
Syndicated with permission from Central square.
