Ruling in favor of Christian legal group could undermine care and rights for LGBTQ+ youth across the country
US supreme court appears poised to overturn Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ Ruling in favor of Christian legal group could undermine care and rights for LGBTQ+ youth across the country Sam Levin and Rachel Leingang Tue 7 Oct 2025 12.32 EDT Share The US supreme court appeared ready to rule against a Colorado law that bans “conversion therapy” practices that seek to change minors’ sexual orientation or gender identity, repeatedly questioning the state over whether the law hindered free speech and whether these practices have been proven harmful.
The high-stakes case could roll back the rights of LGBTQ+ youth across the country. Colorado is one of more than 20 states in the US that have banned conversion practices, and a ruling in favor of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a Christian legal group, could make those laws vulnerable to similar challenges.
In Chiles v Salazar, ADF is representing a woman who objected to a 2019 Colorado law outlawing conversion practices for youth under age 18. The law applies to licensed mental health clinicians who seek to change a patient’s gender identity or sexual orientation, discredited tactics that major medical associations have said are ineffective and harmful.
So much for states rights
States rights has always meant that states have the right to do exactly what republicans want them to do, nothing more.
Turns out everything they ever said was a lie.
It was only ever about states’ “right” to be bigoted and otherwise abuse minority populations.
The civil war wasn’t even about the North trying to stop slavery in the South. It was about the South not being allowed to force other states to abide by the rules of slavery.
Licensing boards should refuse to issue licensure/revoke or suspend based on it causing harm. Therefore, no board certified or licensed therapist could practice lawfully, at the very least.
Yes! Those boards have a great deal of power here to de-legitimize these evil quacks. At the very least, keep these monsters in the fringes where they belong. God help us when the NatC’s get enough power to require health insurers to pay for conversion torture.
If this is free speech, then I should be able to exercise my free speech to use conversion therapy on cristians too then?
Christianity is a hate cult. Keep your children, friends & family away from these monsters.
All religions are a mental defect.
Buddhism seems pretty chill now a days
There is currently a genocide being perpetuated in Myanmar by Buddhists with religion playing a part of the nationalist identity.
Unfortunately we have yet to find an ideology that we can’t use to justify harming those who don’t share it
