Overview
- The Supreme Court’s 8–1 decision, issued Tuesday, sided with counselor Kaley Chiles and found Colorado’s ban unconstitutional as applied to her.
- The majority said the 2019 law discriminated by dictating which views she could express during talk therapy with minors.
- The justices sent the case back to lower courts to revisit their rulings under the First Amendment guidance.
- News outlets described the outcome as a setback for protections for LGBTQ minors, and the reasoning could invite new lawsuits over comparable state bans.
- Conversion therapy seeks to change orientation or gender identity, and reports have cited harmful methods such as electroshocks, hormone regimens, and exorcisms, prompting a U.N. call for a global ban and a German ban since 2020.