Supreme Court Conversion Therapy Ban Ruling: Kids Lose
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 8-1 that Colorado's ban on conversion therapy violates the First Amendment. The decision in Chiles v. Salazar will almost certainly gut similar protections in more than 20 other states. And the people who will pay for it are kids. Not adults making autonomous choices about their own care. Kids — LGBTQ teenagers whose parents can now legally bring them to a therapist whose entire purpose is to convince them that who they are is a mistake. The science on what that does to young people is not ambiguous. It is devastating. And the highest court in the land just said: states can't stop it. What the Supreme Court Actually Decided The case was Chiles v. Salazar . Kaley Chiles, an evangelical Christian counselor in Colorado, challenged the state's law banning licensed therapists from practicing conversion therapy on minors. She argued it violated her First Amendment right to free speech. The Court agreed — 8 to 1. Justice Neil Go...
