The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear Chiles v. Salazar, a challenge to a Colorado law preventing most mental health professionals from offering “conversion therapy” — a discredited method of counseling that attempts to turn LGBTQ patients cisgender and heterosexual (or at least make patients act that way) — to people under age 18.

The Colorado law at issue in Chiles prohibits licensed therapists from engaging in “any practice or treatment … that attempts or purports to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity,” and it includes an exemption for counselors “engaged in the practice of religious ministry.”

According to a 2023 dissent by Justice Samuel Alito,

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