diff --git a/sklearn/preprocessing/_target_encoder.py b/sklearn/preprocessing/_target_encoder.py
index 1ae5102afcd59..078a308d7fe6e 100644
--- a/sklearn/preprocessing/_target_encoder.py
+++ b/sklearn/preprocessing/_target_encoder.py
@@ -339,3 +339,6 @@ def _transform_X_ordinal(
         for f_idx, encoding in enumerate(encodings):
             X_out[indices, f_idx] = encoding[X_ordinal[indices, f_idx]]
             X_out[X_unknown_mask[:, f_idx], f_idx] = y_mean
+
+    def _more_tags(self):
+        return {"requires_y": True}