SCOTUS Rules on Colorado's Ban on 'Conversion Therapy' to Help Gender Dysphoric Individuals

Catherine Salgado : Mar 31, 2026
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Read Justice Gorsuch's majority opinion, Kagan's concurring opinion, and Jackson's dissenting opinion Here. -SCOTUS Wire

[PJMedia.com] Update: SCOTUS did not rule that Colorado's law was unconstitutional per se, as the original report indicates. It ruled that lower courts applied the wrong standard in reviewing Kaley Chiles' case. The court strongly signaled that the law could be unconstitutional when specifically applied to "talk therapy" and ordered the lower court to apply strict scrutiny in reviewing Chiles' case. SCOTUS reversed the lower court's decision and remanded the case back to it... (Image: Pexels)

SCOTUS Wire shockingly reported that the vote was 8-1 in determining that Colorado's ban on conversion therapy constitutes viewpoint discrimination and is therefore a violation of the First Amendment. The case is Chiles v. Salazar, pitting clinical mental health expert and therapist Kaley Chiles against the executive director of Colorado's regulatory department.

Notably, based on the case summary shared by SCOTUS Wire, Chiles—who uses talk therapy—does not suggest conversion therapy if her minor patients are already committed to transgender ideology. She only helps those who want to treat their gender dysphoria. She's not, therefore, at exactly the point one might wish, given that transgenderism is literally impossible, but the key is that the Supreme Court ruled that conversion therapy for minors is protected by the Constitution. That can be the basis for bigger and more comprehensive victories in the future.

A landmark Dutch study found as of 2024 that the majority of children with gender dysphoria grow out of it naturally by the time they are adults... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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