United States v. Skrmetti
U.S. Supreme Court · decided June 18, 2025 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- June 18, 2025
- Term
- October Term 2024
- Vote
- 6–3
- Majority author
- Justice Roberts
- Issue area
- Civil Rights
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
PRELIMINARY PRINT Volume 605 U. S. Part 2 Pages 495–608 OFFICIAL REPORTS OF THE SUPREME COURT June 18, 2025 Page Proof Pending Publication REBECCA A. WOMELDORF reporter of decisions NOTICE: This preliminary print is subject to formal revision before the bound volume is published. Users are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D. C. 20543, pio@supremecourt.gov, of any typographical or other formal errors. OCTOBER TERM, 2024 495 Syllabus UNITED STATES v. SKRMETTI, ATTORNEY GENERAL AND REPORTER FOR TENNESSEE, et al. certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the sixth circuit No. 23–477. Argued December 4, 2024—Decided June 18, 2025 In 2023, Tennessee joined the growing number of States restricting sex transition treatments for minors by enacting the Prohibition on Medical Procedures Performed on Minors Related to Sexual Identity, Senate Bill 1 (SB1). SB1 prohibits healthcare providers from prescribing, adminis- tering, or dispensing puberty blockers or hormones to any minor for the purpose of (1) enabling the minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's biological sex, or (2) treating pur- ported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's biological sex and asserted identity. At the same time, SB1 permits a healthcare provider to administer puberty…
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