Letter: Court Shows It Is Anti-Science

Letter: Court shows it is anti-science

As a retired academic internal medicine clinician, I feel the Supreme Court has once again asserted its qualification to regulate matters of medical practice. I refer to the Associated Press article on conversion therapy (“Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ+ kids,” March 31). Read more...

Unpacking the Supreme Court’s conversion therapy decision

Why was Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson the lone dissent?

Hooray for Brown Jackson’s Brave Dissent in the Colorado Trans Case

The associate justice was alone in seeing that the case was about regulation of medical practice, not free speech.

Colorado’s latest Supreme Court loss adds to growing string of culture war defeats

Counselor Kaley Chiles won an 8-1 Supreme Court ruling striking down Colorado's conversion therapy ban on First Amendment grounds, adding to the state's legal setbacks.

What The Devastating Supreme Court Ruling On Conversion Therapy Means For LGBTQIA+ Youth

The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 on 31 March 2026 that Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors violates the First Amendment, a decision that could gut similar protections across 27 states. Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the majority in Chiles v. Salazar, held that talk-based conversion therapy counts as protected speech and that any […]