US Supreme Court Rejects Colorado's Conversion Therapy Ban
The Spin
Democratic narrative
The Supreme Court's 8-1 ruling tears down vital protections for LGBTQ+ youth by treating a discredited, harmful practice as protected speech. Conversion therapy is a scam that causes real damage to young people, and states have every right to ban it on public health grounds. Colorado will keep fighting to protect LGBTQ+ youth from predatory practices that science has thoroughly rejected.
Republican narrative
The ruling is a landmark victory for free speech, rightly stopping Colorado from censoring voluntary counseling conversations based on viewpoint. A law that allows talk of gender transition but bans helping kids grow comfortable in their own bodies isn't public health policy — it's government-enforced ideological orthodoxy. The First Amendment exists precisely to shield Americans from that kind of state-mandated thought control.
