Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser filed an 83-page notice urging the US Supreme Court to uphold the state's ban on conversion therapy for minors, characterizing the practice as dangerous and substandard medical care. The notice argues that licensed therapists should be regulated to prevent abuse and long-lasting harms. The Supreme Court agreed in March to hear Chiles v. Salazar, a challenge brought by licensed counsellor Kaley Chiles who alleges the ban violates First Amendment free speech rights. Conversion therapy can involve verbal and physical abuse, forced prayer, and sexual violence, and is linked to depression, self-hatred, loss of faith, and suicide.
No amount of talk, pressure or shaming can make a gay person not gay, or a transgender person not transgender. Licensed therapists shouldn't be able to abuse their position of trust to push an agenda that causes long-lasting harm to kids and families,
The Supreme Court should adhere to its long line of precedents and affirm the states' power to regulate health care and protect kids and families from substandard practices.
Conversion therapy is a barbaric practice that aims to change its subject's sexual orientation or gender expression to heterosexual or cisgender, and stems from the belief that having a minority sexual or gender expression is a mental disorder.
Regardless of how this practice is performed, it does not work and causes long-lasting harms that include depression, self-hatred, loss of faith and suicide,
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