The Supreme Court sided Tuesday with a Christian mental health counselor who challenged Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy.”
The justices held 8-1 that Colorado’s law, which forces counselor Kaley Chiles to affirm minors’ gender dysphoria even when they desire help feeling comfortable in their bodies, “regulates speech based on viewpoint.”
“Colorado may regard its policy as essential to public health and safety,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion. “Certainly, censorious governments throughout history have believed the same. But the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country. It reflects instead a judgment that every American possesses an inalienable right to think and speak freely, and a faith in the free marketplace of ideas as the best means for discovering truth.”
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the majority.
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