A frenzy of amicus briefs filed this month in a controversial case set to be heard by the Supreme Court is diversifying the debate around what constitutes “conversion therapy,” especially as it applies to treating children with gender dysphoria.
At issue in Chiles v. Salazar is whether a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for pediatric patients unconstitutionally restricts a mental health counselor’s free speech rights, via viewpoint discrimination, when that therapist wants to counsel gender dysphoric children toward embracing their biological sex.
Of note is a filing from an otherwise progressive third-party observer submitted in support of the Supreme Court challenge to Colorado’s ban on so-called conversion therapy.
The Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), a self-described “radical feminist” cohort whose membership is 40% lesbian and bisexual, raised
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