The Supreme Court has ruled against a law banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that banned the discredited practice.
Counselor Kaley Chiles, with support from President Donald Trump’s Republican administration, said the law wrongly bars her from offering voluntary, faith-based therapy for kids.
There are a lot of kids out there who are so terrified of being othered by the culture they were raised in that they’ll voluntarily submit themselves to conversion therapy. Obviously that’s indicative of a much bigger problem, and that’s only compounded by the fact that plenty of parents who consider conversion therapy an option think they own their kids, so they can do anything with them that they want.
BTW, this kind of pressure is also why partial bans on conversion practices as in Germany, with loopholes for adults who at least superficially agree with being subjected to this, are not enough.
There are a lot of kids out there who are so terrified of being othered by the culture they were raised in that they’ll voluntarily submit themselves to conversion therapy. Obviously that’s indicative of a much bigger problem, and that’s only compounded by the fact that plenty of parents who consider conversion therapy an option think they own their kids, so they can do anything with them that they want.
BTW, this kind of pressure is also why partial bans on conversion practices as in Germany, with loopholes for adults who at least superficially agree with being subjected to this, are not enough.
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