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The Supreme Court's Latest Blow to LGBTQIA+ Rights
What’s going on: Yesterday, the Supreme Court struck down Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors. In an 8-1 decision, the Court ruled the practice — aimed at changing a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity — violates the First Amendment by regulating what therapists can say. As the lone dissenter, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned the decision could have “catastrophic” implications for how the government regulates medical care. But Justice Neil Gorsuch, who wrote for the majority, argued: “The First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.” For many who’ve experienced conversion therapy — which studies have shown to be both ineffective and dangerous — the impact is deeply traumatizing. One transgender survivor of the practice told The Trevor Project: “What they’re doing is not therapy. What it is is torture.”
What it means: The ruling doesn’t just affect Colorado — it could upend similar bans in nearly 30 states and Washington, DC. It also puts a longstanding tension front and center: what happens when efforts to protect people collide with free speech. Even groups like the ACLU have wrestled with that line. In this case, the Human Rights Campaign says the stakes are especially high. Major medical groups — including the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics — have long discredited conversion therapy as harmful. This isn’t the only case impacting LGBTQIA+ individuals. The Supreme Court is expected to rule this summer on a law barring transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports.
