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How the Supreme Court’s trans therapy case guts the ‘expert’ class

Scientific freedom won big at the US Supreme Court this week.

On Tuesday the court refused to uphold Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy,” ruling 8-1 that the state law unconstitutionally restricts licensed talk therapist Kaley Chiles’ freedom of speech under the First Amendment. 

Similar bans in 22 other states, including New York and California, will probably fall under this ruling.

The mainstream press billed the legal struggle in Chiles v. Salazar as a cultural battle between Christian right-wingers and transgender advocates.

But in truth, a bigger, more powerful issue was at stake: Can government silence medical dissent?

Eight justices voted against the Colorado law, including liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

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Colorado’s lawyers defended the ban by pointing to a consensus among “every major professional healthcare association in the country” that conversion therapy — which aims help patients suffering gender dysphoria to feel comfortable with their birth sex — is ineffective and likely harmful.

But today’s medical consensus is often tomorrow’s outdated science. 

Knowledge evolves, unless the law silences the free exchange of........

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