No Disorder, No Cure: Conversion Therapy, Sexual Shame, and the Supreme Court’s Dangerous New Line - The Babblings of JT

The Supreme Court did not prove conversion therapy works. It did something far more dangerous: it made it harder for states to stop licensed providers from using a discredited, harmful practice on minors. In Chiles v. Salazar, the Court turned a child-protection law into a free speech fight and, in the process, handed fresh oxygen to one of the cruelest frauds this country has ever dared to call “treatment.” Conversion therapy is not care. It is stigma in a clinical costume. It is shame with a clipboard. It is coercion dressed up as concern. This article goes straight at the lie, the damage, the hypocrisy, and the Court’s long role in deciding whose identities get treated as human and whose identities get treated as problems to be solved.