The discredited and harmful practice is on the rise in the U.S., despite clear evidence of the damage they cause and opposition from every major medical association.

The US Supreme Court heard a case Tuesday that will determine whether a Colorado law that prohibits licensed mental health professionals from providing conversion “therapy” to minors is constitutional ...

Who we are is not something that needs to be fixed. Yet for thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender young people across the U.S., conversion therapy continues to send the dangerous ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Oct. 7 in Chiles v. Salazar, a challenge to Colorado’s 2019 law prohibiting licensed health care professionals from providing so-called conversion ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard a challenge to a Colorado state law that bans “conversion therapy” for minors that hinges on whether the state’s ban is so broad that it limits speech and religious ...

The Supreme Court conversion therapy case, Chiles v. Salazar, involves a hate group defending psychological torture as a “religious right.” After years of refusing to hear such cases, the Supreme ...

The court's liberal wing offered, at best, only mild push-back against a challenge to a ban on "conversion therapy" for teens, with Justice Elena Kagan even agreeing that it "seems like viewpoint ...

Theresa Gaffney is the lead Morning Rounds writer and reports on health care, new research, and public policy, with a particular interest in mental health, gender-affirming care, and LGBTQ+ patient ...

The Supreme Court is currently weighing Chiles v. Salazar, a case that challenges Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors. ⁠Conversion therapy has been linked with higher rates of depression ...

The Supreme Court this week questioned whether conversion therapy — a practice that has been denounced by major medical organizations — actually causes harm to minors. The justices heard oral ...

The author outside the U.S. Supreme Court as the Court heard oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar on Oct. 7, 2025, in Washington, DC. On Tuesday, I stood on the steps of the Supreme Court with ...

Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of guest commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. Minnesota is one of 25 states that have in recent years banned ...