U.S. Supreme Court sceptical toward Colorado LGBT 'conversion therapy' ban

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Questions posed by the court's conservative justices during arguments in the case signaled their sympathy toward Christian licensed counselor Kaley Chiles, who challenged the law under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protections against government abridgment of free speech.
56% : " What the law states Colorado's law prohibits licensed mental healthcare providers from seeking to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity according to a predetermined outcome, with each violation punishable by a fine of up to $5,000.
49% : The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday (October 7, 2025) appeared ready to side with a challenge on free speech grounds to a Colorado law banning psychotherapists from conducting "conversion therapy" that aims to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity.
47% : This includes attempts to reduce or eliminate same-sex attraction or change "behaviours or gender expressions.
45% : " The law does permit treatments that provide "assistance to a person undergoing gender transition," as well as therapies centered on "acceptance, support and understanding" for "identity exploration and development".
44% : Trump administration backs therapist Democratic Colorado Governor Jared Polis, the first openly gay man to be elected as a U.S. State governor and a critic of conversion therapy, signed the measure into law in 2019.
37% : States should not lose their longstanding power to regulate safety in healthcare and to restrict the use by providers of harmful treatments that violate a profession's standard of care "just because they are using words," Mr. Stevenson argued.
35% : Conservative Justice Samuel Alito seemed to embrace the plaintiff's claim that Colorado's law aims to marginalise views the state dislikes, saying the measure appears to allow therapists to help a patient feel comfortable about being gay but bars them from helping a patient who seeks to "end or lessen" their same-sex attraction.

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