Supreme Court sides with therapist in challenge to Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy”

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter. She argued that the majority’s opinion “could be ushering in an era of unprofessional and unsafe medical care administered by effectively unsupervised healthcare providers.”
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/supreme-court-sides-with-therapist-in-challenge-to-colorados-ban-on-conversion-therapy/#:~:text=The%20Supreme%20Court%20on%20Tuesday,Amendment%20as%20applied%20to%20Chiles.

Supreme Court Allows Licensed Mental Health Practitioners to Traumatize Children

This ruling undermines critical protections for youth in 23 States and the District of Columbia against so-called “conversion therapy,” leaving children vulnerable to abusive and ineffective practices that harm families and devastate mental health outcomes
https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/supreme-court-allows-licensed-mental-health-practitioners-to-traumatize-children#:~:text=Supreme%20Court%20Allows%20Licensed%20Mental%20Health%20Practitioners%20to%20Traumatize%20Children,state%20licensed%20mental%20health%20practitioners.

Justices Reject Colorado Law Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ for L.G.B.T.Q. Minors

"The state and more than 20 others restrict therapists from trying to change the gender identity or sexual orientation of clients under 18."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/politics/supreme-court-colorado-conversion-therapy.html

@DharmaDog

But this case was emphatically not about subjecting young people to conversion therapy practices, and that was key to the contect of the decision.