Supreme Court rules 8-1 against Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors
The Facts
- The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in favor of Colorado counselor Kaley Chiles in her challenge to the state’s conversion therapy law.
- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter in the case.
- The court held that Colorado’s law, as applied to talk therapy, regulates speech based on viewpoint.
- The Supreme Court reversed the Tenth Circuit’s decision and sent the case back for further proceedings under a more demanding constitutional review.
- Colorado had argued that its law regulates professional conduct rather than speech, a position the lower court had accepted before the Supreme Court reversed it.
- Colorado’s law bars licensed mental health professionals from trying to change a minor’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
- More than 20 states have similar laws restricting conversion therapy for minors.
Context
What exactly did the Supreme Court decide?
The court ruled that Colorado could not enforce its conversion therapy ban against Kaley Chiles’ talk therapy for minors because, in that application, the law regulates speech based on viewpoint and triggers stronger First Amendment scrutiny CBS News,NPR,CBS News.
Did the ruling strike down all regulation of conversion therapy?
Not entirely. Multiple reports say the court sent the case back to lower courts rather than ending the matter outright, and the ruling focused on the law’s application to talk therapy provided by Chiles Beckley Register-He…,CBS News,U.S. News & World R….
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