The Supreme Court will hear two arguments on Tuesday regarding a Colorado state law that bans licensed counselors from providing conversion therapy to minors.
on Tuesday regarding a Colorado state law that bans licensed counselors from providing conversion therapy to minors. The case, Chiles v. Salazar, centers around whether or not a therapist who uses talk therapy to convince minors to change their gender identity is protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution.
Kaley Chiles, a licensed counselor, says the Minor Conversion Therapy Law is restricting her communication with her clients. Chiles first challenged the law in 2019 in federal district court, but lost. She appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, later bringing the case to the Supreme Court. In March, the Supreme Court agreed to hear her arguments at the beginning of its 2025-26 term.Chiles says that her First Amendment right is violated and she is unable to exercise her religious rights, with the state law banning conversion therapy being unconstitutional. The state has previously said that conversion therapy is "unsafe and ineffective," and that is why they banned professionals from providing this treatment to minors. While licensed counselors can't practice conversion therapy on minors, the law does not stop religious counselors from doing so. The executive director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, Patty Salazar, is representing Colorado in this case. Salazar has maintained that the law is in place to protect minors from treatments that could cause mental health problems. Chiles is arguing that she is not converting patients; she is helping them with "stated desires and objectives" while in counseling.by sticking to "its precedent." Weiser says that "so-called conversion therapy" is used by some professionals to "force patients to change their sexual orientation or gender identity," even though "it does not work and causes long-lasting harms."Stay Connected
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