Mastodawn

How can therapy be regulated as an evidence based therapeutic intervention if therapists have a First Amendment right to say anything to any client? If therapy can't be regulated as a therapeutic intervention, why would insurance pay for it any more than it pays for newspaper subscriptions?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/post/3miee3mbg6s2j

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Evan Urquhart

I think this court's overall approach to medical outcomes as a matter of partisan opinion is really concerning, and something most people are missing because so many of the cases have to do with trans people.

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Evan Urquhart 1d ago

Does a doctor have a First Amendment right to tell you that ingesting arsenic will cure your athlete's foot? Why would that be different from this?

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Bodhipaksa 11h ago

@evanurquhart.bsky.social Can someone become a therapist and then, under the cover of the first amendment, tell you that your mental health problems are caused by demons, and that the cure is to turn to Christ? Or did SCOTUS narrow their ruling in some way to exclude such things?