The Supreme Court's 8-1 ruling tears down vital protections for LGBTQ youth by treating a discredited, harmful practice as protected speech. Conversion therapy is a scam that causes real damage to young people, and states have every right to ban it on public health grounds. Colorado will keep fighting to protect LGBTQ youth from predatory practices that science has thoroughly rejected.
The Supreme Court's ruling is a landmark victory for free speech, rightly stopping Colorado from censoring voluntary counseling conversations based on viewpoint. A law that allows talk of gender transition but bans helping kids grow comfortable in their own bodies isn't public health policy — it's government-enforced ideological orthodoxy. The First Amendment exists precisely to shield Americans from that kind of state-mandated thought control.
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