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Conversion Therapy Reaches the Supreme Court
A protester waves a transgender pride flag outside the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images)
Even the Court isn’t quite certain what conversion therapy is: speech or conduct?
By Lisa Selin Davis
10.08.25 — Sex and Gender
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On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case challenging a 2019 Colorado law banning conversion therapy. Conversion therapy is often defined as the effort to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

Kaley Chiles, a conservative Christian counselor who brought the case, says that the law encroaches…

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Lisa Selin Davis
Author of novels BELLY and LOST STARS, and nonfiction books TOMBOY and HOUSEWIFE. At work on a book about the youth gender culture war.
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