The Court holds that Colorado's ban on conversion therapy, as applied to a licensed counselor who offers nothing but talk therapy, regulates speech based on viewpoint rather than conduct. Because the law lets a counselor affirm a client's sexual orientation or gender identity but forbids her from speaking in ways that would change it, the lower courts erred in applying only rational-basis review instead of sufficiently rigorous First Amendment scrutiny.
CASE: Chiles v. Salazar
AUTHOR: Gorsuch, J.
DECIDED: 2026-03-31
OPINION: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-539new_3fb4.pdf
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