""Today's reckless decision means more American kids will suffer. The Court has weaponized free-speech in order to prioritize anti-LGBTQ+ bias over the safety, health and wellbeing of children.""
""Conversion therapy is a pseudoscientific practice in which providers attempt to change a youth's sexual orientation or gender identity, often through extremely harsh methods including acts of physical, psychological and sexual abuse against minors.""
""The United Nations has deemed conversion therapy torture and recommended it be banned. Twenty-three states and Washington, D.C., have laws banning conversion therapy for minors.""
""I think the most important thing to understand about the decision today is that it only takes one way of regulating conversion therapy off the table.""
The Supreme Court's 8-1 ruling declared that Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for youth infringes on the free speech rights of a Christian counselor. This decision has been criticized as harmful, with advocates warning it prioritizes anti-LGBTQ+ bias over the welfare of children. Conversion therapy, deemed torture by the United Nations, is widely discredited and condemned by major medical associations. Despite the ruling, many avenues for regulating conversion therapy remain available, according to LGBTQ+ advocates.
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