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yankee87

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Tue Mar 31, 2026, 11:02 AM Tuesday

US Supreme Court rejects Colorado's ban on LGBT 'conversion' talk therapy [View all]

US Supreme Court rejects Colorado's ban on LGBT 'conversion' talk therapy. The justices, in a 8-1 ruling, reversed a lower court's decision that had upheld the law in a case brought by Kaley Chiles, who argued that it violated the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protections against government abridgment of free speech.

The ruling, authored by conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, rejected Colorado's argument that its law regulated professional conduct, not protected speech. The court held open the possibility that the law could apply to certain forms of conversion therapy, including so-called "aversive" physical interventions, but not to Chiles' speech at issue here.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/us-supreme-court-rejects-colorado-s-ban-on-lgbt-conversion-talk-therapy/ar-AA1ZPFFD?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=69cbe0096382417ea65d6ce25ec37a47&ei=37

SCOTUS is okay regulating women's bodies, transgender people, but still want to make life worse for our transgender youth. We need to expand the Court also.
I HATE SCOTUS.

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Its junk science, all of it. Johonny Tuesday #1
Suicide the final outcome? yankee87 Tuesday #3
We need to fire all of Rupert Murdoch's clowns at every level. Initech Tuesday #2
Weird ruling. Free speech behind a closed door medical treatment. bucolic_frolic Tuesday #4
This message was self-deleted by its author Sympthsical Tuesday #5
Was hate speech ever illegal? pcdb Tuesday #12
There is not a "hate speech" exception to the First Amendment. tritsofme Yesterday #28
It was pretty clear cut in this instance Sympthsical Tuesday #6
The law protects abhorrent speech too EdmondDantes_ Tuesday #7
Except they clearly don't believe that dsc Tuesday #8
Perfect answer yankee87 Tuesday #10
Sotomayor and Kagan didn't cocur with that decision Jose Garcia Tuesday #13
No they didn't but Alito, Thomas, and Roberts surely did dsc Tuesday #14
But they both did concur with the cons in this case. Celerity Tuesday #15
Disagree yankee87 Tuesday #11
There are a lot of terrible therapists in this world Sympthsical Tuesday #19
Kagan touched on this in her concurrence Shrek Yesterday #27
Therapy itself is questionable gulliver Tuesday #9
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Tuesday #17
I've no doubt you've met more than your share n/t Torchlight Tuesday #23
Questionable at its best. Cerulean Southpaw Tuesday #18
There are good and bad therapists Sympthsical Tuesday #20
Your point about the importance of social support... gulliver Tuesday #24
Absolutely. Those are the bad ones. Sympthsical Yesterday #26
In every profession there are the good and bad luv2fly Tuesday #25
I Wonder if this will Pave the Way... NEOH Tuesday #16
Sad, but true yankee87 Tuesday #21
Deadline Legal Blog-Supreme Court sides with Christian counselor over Colorado on 'conversion therapy' for minors LetMyPeopleVote Tuesday #22
I am EXTREMELY disappointed that Justices Kagan and Sotomayor went along with this . . . markpkessinger 21 hrs ago #29
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