Highly recommend reading, the true story of Mel White, a gay man working for the most powerful religious figures in America and went through “conversion therapy.” I read it in the 1990s and it was well worth it.
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Had to Google if it was legal to use conversion therapy on republicans to make them another party Ai overview said while the Supreme Court has ruled that counseling aimed at changing sexual orientation is legally protected speech, attempting to use such methods on political beliefs is not a legal "therapy" issue, but rather a matter of political persuasion, which is already legal and a staple of political discourse. So Republicans can say your sick for your ideas but its not a therapy issue to say they are

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As a former religious gal, no. Nothing can stop a person from being LGBTQIA. Not "therapy", not religion, NOTHING.

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How D&D Tables Can Fight SCOTUS's Conversion Therapy Ruling The medical establishment has finally caught up to what we nerds have known for decades: sitting around a dining room table pretending to be a half-orc barbarian is incredibly good for your brain. The...

D&D isn't just a game; it's a buffer zone. With the Supreme Court backing conversion therapy, our tables must become sanctuaries. Let vulnerable kids roll a natural 20 against erasure. Here is how we use TTRPGs to fight back

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Bennet Statement on Supreme Court’s Ruling in Chiles v. Salazar on Colorado Ban on Conversion Therapy - U.S. Senator Michael Bennet Denver — Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet issued the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Chiles v. Salazar regarding Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy:  “As Colorado works...

Bennet Statement on Supreme Court’s Ruling in Chiles v. Salazar on Colorado Ban on Conversion Therapy

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Supreme Court ruling on ‘conversion therapy’ puts medical talk in the hot seat In Chiles v. Salazar, the court ruled that a therapist has First Amendment protections. That could impact how talk therapy is regulated.

#USCourts Supreme Court ruling on #conversiontherapy puts medical talk in the hot seat www.sciencenews.org/article/conv... court said talk therapy is protected speech, not medical conduct.

Supreme Court ruling on Colorado conversion therapy case is not a clear win for conservatives The court decided Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy violated the free speech of a talk therapist.

#SupremeCourt ruling on #Colorado #conversiontherapy case is not a clear win for #conservatives

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US supreme court’s ‘conversion therapy’ ruling opens ‘can of worms’. What’s next? The court ruled 8-1 against a Colorado law banning ‘conversion therapy’ for youths. What does it mean for other states, and why did two liberals side with conservatives?

#SCOTUS ruled 8-1 against a #Colorado law banning #ConversionTherapy for youths. What does it mean for other states, and why did two liberals side with conservatives?

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Jasmine Crockett Defends Ketanji Brown Jackson After 8-1 Ruling Rep. Jasmine Crockett defends Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson after her lone dissent in an 8-1 Supreme Court ruling drew criticism from liberal justices. Read what she said.

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What SCOTUS' conversion therapy ruling means for Wisconsin Days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled decisively that bans on conversion therapy violate the First Amendment, it’s unclear exactly how, or when, the ramifications will be felt in Wisconsin.

#NASWWI Executive Director Marc Herstand was interviewed by Wisconsin Public Radio in an article released on April 2nd regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that putting bans on conversion therapy violates the First Amendment.
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BREAKING: Legalized Mental Abuse | Podcast Episode on RSS.com At best, this creates a green light for gaslighting and bullying someone into submission.At worst… it’s permission for torture in the name of “therapy.”And the Supreme Court just opened the door.

The #SupremeCourt is at it again …

At best, this creates a green light for gaslighting and bullying someone into submission.
At worst… it’s permission for torture in the name of “therapy.”

#LGBTQRights #CivilRights #MentalHealth #FreeSpeech #Politics #SCOTUS #ConversionTherapy #BreakingNews

Justices Sotomayor and Kagan have betrayed the LGBTQIA+ community. They may not have been able to stop it, but their dissent would’ve been meaningful.

This will cause irreparable harm to so many young people.

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COLAGE Responds: Supreme Court ruling against CO conversion therapy ban: The Court's decision does not change what we know: queer people and families are not problems to be fixed, but people to be celebrated.

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voteinorout on Instagram: "Today the Supreme Court struck down youth #conversiontherapy bans, ruling that people have a free speech right to inflict psychological torture on #LGBTQ youth in order to “convert” them. We anticipated this horrific & destructive ruling — one that empowers extremists to try to erase our existence — so I introduced a new bill to take an alternative approach to protecting LGBTQ people from conversion therapy. Senate Bill 934 gives people far longer to file malpractice claims against people who try to “convert” them to be straight or cisgender & makes it easier to recover damages. You can’t “convert” an LGBTQ person to not be LGBTQ & we will always protect LGBTQ people from psychological abuse. Full stop. Follow @scott_wiener for more. Help this information get to more voters. 🇺🇸 A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to Democracy.—Thomas Jefferson" 35 likes, 1 comments - voteinorout on March 31, 2026: "Today the Supreme Court struck down youth #conversiontherapy bans, ruling that people have a free speech right to inflict psychological torture on #LGBTQ youth in order to “convert” them. We anticipated this horrific & destructive ruling — one that empowers extremists to try to erase our existence — so I introduced a new bill to take an alternative approach to protecting LGBTQ people from conversion therapy. Senate Bill 934 gives people far longer to file malpractice claims against people who try to “convert” them to be straight or cisgender & makes it easier to recover damages. You can’t “convert” an LGBTQ person to not be LGBTQ & we will always protect LGBTQ people from psychological abuse. Full stop. Follow @scott_wiener for more. Help this information get to more voters. 🇺🇸 A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to Democracy.—Thomas Jefferson".

Today the Supreme Court struck down youth #conversiontherapy bans, ruling that people have a free speech right to inflict psychological torture on #LGBTQ youth in order to “convert” them. We anticipated this horrific & destructive ruling — one that empowers extremists to try to erase our existenc...

NABC's Official Conversion Therapy Statement #NABC #Conversiontherapy

SCOTUS rules against Colorado’s LGBTQ conversion therapy ban Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of therapist Kaley Chiles, who challenged a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for minors – a process counselors use to try to

#SCOTUS ruled conversion therapy bans violate free speech, over objections from virtually every major medical association. Justice Jackson's lone dissent: the Constitution shouldn't shield harmful medical care just because it's delivered through words.
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I’ve had crunch wraps more supreme than this court. #conversiontherapy #SCOTUS

#transgender #conversiontherapy #chilesvsalazar #trevorproject #southernequality

And yet, we're witnessing this entire spectrum across the mental health industrial complex, from licensing boards, professional associations, to academic institutions.

Do NOT mislead the public about the reality of this field's so-called "ethical standards".

#conversiontherapy

#ConversionTherapy
Conversion Therapy is some real Dark Ages shit.

The Meaning of Trump’s Working-Class ‘Buyer’s Remorse’ The Supreme Court has ruled 8-1 against state-level bans on conversion therapy. The ruling in _Chiles v. Salazar_ does not immediately invalidate the Colorado law at issue, which made it a violation of one’s state mental health licensure to engage in “therapies” that attempt to turn queer, trans, and questioning minors into young gender-conforming straight folks. However, the Court’s ruling essentially seals the law’s fate and the fates of similar laws in 22 other states and the District of Columbia. The lopsided SCOTUS majority held that Colorado’s legislation constitutes a form of viewpoint discrimination that runs afoul of the First Amendment. The Court sent the case back to a lower federal court to reconsider it with instructions to apply “strict scrutiny,” a kind of constitutional analysis under which the presumption is against state action that implicates important rights. _**More from Felicia Kornbluh**_ The only dissent was a sharply written one by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who demanded that her colleagues understand the context in which this and all controls on professional speech occur in the real world. Alone on the nation’s highest bench, Jackson recognizes the long history of harms caused by anti-gay practices that have traveled under cover of professional expertise. Colorado’s law was passed in 2019. It was part of a wave of state-level efforts beginning in the 1980s and 1990s to reflect in law the fact that “conversion therapy” was widely discredited by professional associations and advocates for LGBTQ+ people. During that period, LGBTQ+ people pushed hard against older biases and AIDS-inspired ones alike. Leading gay historian Martin Duberman published a devastating memoir called _Cures_ (1991), which chronicled the years of destructive talk therapy he underwent as part of his quest to be straight, abetted by one therapist after another who pushed him to twist his psyche and waste his time and money on a meaningless and fruitless quest. Law professor William Eskridge argued in the landmark study _Gaylaw_ (1999) that U.S. law should treat gayness and straightness as merely examples of what anthropologist Gayle Rubin had termed “benign sexual variation.” > Colorado’s law was passed in 2019 as part of a wave of state-level efforts to reflect in law the fact that “conversion therapy” was widely discredited. Bans on conversion therapy were part of the effort to treat diversity in people’s gender and sexual identities, practices, and preferences as healthy and normal, as morally and politically neutral. This included even our flamboyances, our gender-rebelliousness, our sexual discontents, our desires to flaunt or flounce, to femme or butch it up. If our troubles with majority expressions of gender, sex, and sexuality were totally cool, then medical practices pretending otherwise were problematic. This seemed even more true as evidence accrued, from Duberman and a couple of generations of people who were subjected to the so-called therapy, that it was not neutral but harmful. The majority opinion, penned by Justice Neil Gorsuch, protested too much about the supposed simplicity of the case. He presented it as a simple matter of First Amendment–protected speech. (Can’t you see it’s about words?!? Words, I tell you!!) He asserted a bright-line distinction between speech and action, which does not exist. And he built on this distinction a phony idea: What doctors do with pills and instruments _can_ constitutionally be regulated by state governments—it turns out the liberal squishes who thought the Supreme Court might criminalize the provision of abortion pills by Planned Parenthood or uphold state-level bars on doctors providing hormones to transitioning teens whose parents have agreed that the hormones are in their kids’ best interest might have had a point!—but words alone, by suggestion at once less powerful than physical interventions and more sacrosanct than them, cannot be regulated. This raises the question: Do Justice Gorsuch and the other five justices in the conservative supermajority understand what psychologists and other mental health professionals do? ### The _Prospect_ in your inbox Subscribe for analysis that goes beyond the noise. * The Daily Prospect A daily dose of the ideas, politics and power that shape our world, in your inbox weekday mornings. * Today On TAP Weekday newsletter features commentary from Robert Kuttner, Harold Meyerson and more, plus links to what's trending at Prospect.org. * Weekend Reads The best of the week, curated by the editors of The American Prospect, delivered Saturday mornings. * Pop-up newsletters Limited series newsletters on timely topics, such as the debt limit challenge, budget negotiations and more. Sign up The fake bright line here reminded me of conservative grousing about “hate speech” regulation. It also made me wonder if maybe a hard swipe at Sigmund Freud wasn’t part of the contemporary conservative project, to make us all believe that intellectual modernity was nothing but a put-up job designed to take stuff away from straight white able-bodied men of European heritage. Justice Elena Kagan wrote for herself and Justice Sonia Sotomayor to agree, hurriedly, with the right-wing majority. Her short concurrence seemed to this reader a little embarrassed, given that she has to know how hard LGBTQ+ people, who have gotten enough hits this year already, will take it. But Kagan also seemed nearly as concerned as Justice Gorsuch about the “viewpoint discrimination” in the Colorado law. It is true that the law permits speech that supports teens’ gender questioning and their emergent queer sexualities. It forbids as a species of professional malpractice speech that pushes young people toward conventional gender and sexual expressions, practices, and identities. (The law allows licensed mental health counselors to refer these patients to other practitioners, who can offer explicitly religious counseling, which can push the patients toward whatever gendered and sexual norms are favored in their religion.) Maybe Justice Kagan is thinking about her experiences as a professor and dean, before she joined the Supreme Court bench. To be sure, we college professors need protection from governmental heavy-handedness when it comes to enforcing what we and our students can say and write, as much today as ever in the past. But this kind of First Amendment talk is as mutable as any other kind of law talk. My colleagues are far more likely to be censored, censured, or worse in the name of “viewpoint diversity” for expressing genuinely unpopular opinions than they are to be protected by this kind of approach to the First Amendment. (Viewpoint diversity in academia these days largely means that I have to make more space on campus for students and even professors to say things that are harmful to traditionally subordinated groups, things that one can hear any day of the week on right-wing cable television.) > The Transphobic Mask Is Off Justice Jackson alone seems capable of meeting the moment. She underlines that conversion therapy has had two effects, neither productive or benign. First, it has stigmatized patients who question their sex, sexuality, and/or gender, or who have stable sexual and/or gender identities that differ from the ones that our culture endorses most readily. Second, these pseudo-therapies have set up LGBTQ+ and questioning people for failure by encouraging them to pursue mainstream sexual and gender identities that they are unlikely to achieve—even if, as with Duberman back in the day, they really want to and try super hard. Along the way, they will certainly be affirmed in the view that straight is better than gay, cisgender than transgender, straight and narrow than queer and wiggy. To interpret the Supreme Court’s opinions in this case, I spoke to Marie-Amélie George, a professor at Wake Forest University Law School and expert in LGBTQ+ law. (George is also a close colleague and co-author of mine.) George argued that the Colorado law was an example of “symbolic expressive regulation.” No professional had been charged or sanctioned under the law, including Kaley Chiles, the professional in whose name the Christian, right-wing legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom brought this case. Colorado’s point, and the point of the many other jurisdictions with similar laws, was to broadcast that certain practices by professionally licensed persons are contrary to the good of the citizenry. Even more, laws like the one considered in this case aimed to broadcast that gayness, queerness, transness, and every other kind of LGBTQ+-ness was perfectly OK. By ruling against Colorado, the Supreme Court of the United States has indicated that professionals may retain their licenses while offering “therapy” premised on the opposite view. _Chiles v. Salazar_ was all about the deep value of “viewpoint diversity” in a constitutional democracy. Maybe one place to work on increasing that kind of diversity is a one-sided Supreme Court that seems content to treat malpractice as just another set of opinions. ## Read more ### The Meaning of Trump’s Working-Class ‘Buyer’s Remorse’ Trump voters are rejecting Republicans in large numbers. But they’re not coming back to Democrats yet. by Stanley B. Greenberg March 26, 2026March 26, 2026 ### Too Afraid to Leave Home: ICE’s Toll on Latino HIV Care In Minneapolis, heightened immigration enforcement is disrupting HIV care for Latino communities, a group already disproportionately affected by the virus. by Sam Donndelinger and Cameron Oakes March 6, 2026March 6, 2026 ### ICE Deletes Rape Protection for Trans Immigrants The agency this month altered more contracts with private prison companies to remove care and protection measures it took advocates years to win. by Whitney Curry Wimbish January 14, 2026 **You've just read one of the stories we published this week because readers like you made it possible.** The _Prospect_ doesn't answer to advertisers or billionaire owners. We answer to you. That's not a slogan—it's how we're funded, and it's why we can report without fear or favor. Independent, reader-supported journalism is rare. We'd like to keep it going. 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