"In 2022, licensed professional counselor (LPC) Kaley Chiles filed a lawsuit against Colorado over its ban on conversion therapies for minors. Chiles states she helps her minor clients to "reduce or eliminate unwanted sexual attractions, change sexual behaviors, or grow in the experience of physical harmony within one's body" and contends that the ban violates her First Amendment right to free speech and the free exercise of religion."
"In 2012, Alan Chambers, then president of Exodus International, which was the leading ex-gay Christian organization and conversion therapy provider globally, publicly announced that conversion therapies could not change a person's sexual orientation and that the practices were harmful. While many questioned the sincerity of his statements and accused him of overlooking his organization's accusations of physical and sexual abuse of minors, the downfall of Exodus International a year later dovetailed with the beginning of the movement underway to ban conversion therapies on minors nationwide."
Licensed professional counselor Kaley Chiles sued Colorado in 2022 over the state's ban on conversion therapies for minors. Chiles says she helps minors reduce or eliminate unwanted sexual attractions, change sexual behaviors, or grow in the experience of physical harmony within one's body, and contends the ban violates her First Amendment free-speech rights and free exercise of religion. The Colorado Supreme Court and the Tenth Circuit upheld the ban, and the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Chiles v. Salazar in October 2025 with Alliance Defending Freedom representing her. The movement to ban conversion therapy accelerated after Exodus International's 2013 collapse and prompted state bans and litigation.
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