All Kaley Chiles wants to do is help young people who are distressed about their gender.

Yet, as a Colorado licensed counselor – who is also a Christian – Chiles is prevented from having these kinds of honest conversations because of a state law that censors her point of view that young people should avoid drugs and surgeries if they are uncomfortable with their bodies. 

In 2019, Colorado passed the Prohibit Conversion Therapy for A Minor law, which prohibits mental health professionals from offering any kind of such therapy to anyone under the age of 18 who is struggling with gender identity and sexual orientation. 

Chiles believes that the law is an overreach on the part of the state, and that it is censorship of her First Amendment rights. She wants to be able to speak freely with young clients about learning to love their biological sex. So she sued the state. 

“It’s the opportunity to stand up not only for my freedom of speech in the counseling office and have these private personal conversations with clients, but my clients’ freedom of speech as well, their ability to have a genuine therapeutic relationship with me that is not censored by the state in this way,” Chiles told me.

The U.S. Supreme Court will

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