Washington: The US Supreme Court was set on Tuesday to listen to the freedom of speech for the Colorado law, which prohibits psychotherapists to perform “conversion therapy” to change the sexual orientation of minors or gender identity.
The dispute will stand on Colorado’s power to prohibit medical practice, which he considers dangerous and ineffective against the rights of a Christian advisor to the Kaley Chiles license, which challenged the law under the protection of the first amendment to the US Constitution against the abbreviation of the Freedom Government.
Chiles appealed to a lower court decision that rejected its claim that the 2019 Act unlawfully censor its communication with clients in violation of the first addition. The state said it regulates professional behavior, not speech. Democratic Governor Colorado Jared Polis, the first openly homosexual to be elected as the US governor of the state and a critic of conversion therapy, signed the measure in the law in 2019. The Republican President Donald Trump is supported by Chiles in dispute. The case casts the Supreme Court back into the American cultural wars and gives its 6-3 conservative majority to increase the interests of a conservative Christian dispute at the expense of LGBT protection.
Colorado is one of the more than two dozen states and the district of Columbia, which reduce or prohibit conversion therapy in patients under 18 years of age. Medical groups, such as the American Psychological Association in court documents, quoted studies that show that the practice was associated with a number of damage, including an increased probability that the transgender of minors minors or suicide attempts.
Chiles said that “they believe that people flourish when they live consistently with God’s design, including their biological sex.” Colorado’s real goal with this law, claimed Chiles, is “silence and marginalize opinions they don’t like”.
The Colorado law prohibits licensed mental health care providers to try to change the sexual orientation of a minor or gender identity according to a predetermined result, with a fine of up to $ 5,000. This includes attempts to reduce or eliminate the attraction of the same sex or change “behavior or gender”.
The law allows treatment that provides “assistance to a person undergoing gender transition” as well as therapies aimed at “acceptance, support and understanding” for “identity exploration and development”.
In 2022, Chiles sued Colorado officials in an effort to block the status and argue, among other things, that it unlawfully discriminates her speech “based on the content of the report it offers”. Chiles advocated Colorado’s measures to be assessed according to the strictest forms of judicial review, known as strict control.
The US district judge Charlotte Sweeney, appointed democratic former president Joe Biden, decided in 2022 against Chiles and decided that Colorado’s ban was a permissible regulation of professional behavior, not speech. The judge also found that conversion therapy is “ineffective and damages minors who identify themselves as homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or gender non -conformist”.
The Denver Court of Appeal with its registered office in Denver confirmed the decision of the judge, which forced Chiles to appeal to the Supreme Court, whose decision is expected by the end of June.
Colorado urged the judge to observe their law and to quote the state’s interest in ensuring minors to receive safe and effective mental health care and claim that states commonly regulate health procedures, including Talk therapy to protect against “non -standard” care.
Chiles is represented by an alliance defending freedom, a conservative group of religious rights, which ensured the victory of the Supreme Court on behalf of the baker and the designer of the website, which, on the basis of their Christian beliefs, refused to serve homosexual couples.
Tuesday’s arguments take place on the second day of the new nine -month period of the court. Later in this term, judges should hear arguments in the offers of Idaho and West Virginia to enforce Republican state laws that prohibit transgender athletes from female sports teams in public schools.
During his last period, which ended in June, the conservatives were driven by a decision that confirmed Tennessee’s Republican ban on medical care for gender confirming medical care for the minor and let parents keep their children outside classes when they read stories with LGBT characters. The conservative majority that is acting on an emergency basis also allowed Trump’s ban on Transgender’s people in the army.
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