U.S. Supreme Court Rules Colorado’s Conversion Therapy Ban Unconstitutional, Backing Kaley Chiles

On March 31, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional Colorado’s law banning “conversion therapies” for LGBT+ minors, siding with Kaley Chiles, a Christian psychologist.

Le Monde reported that the case involved a Colorado law enacted in 2019 that prohibits licensed practitioners from administering “conversion therapies” to minors, and that the decision was issued on Tuesday, March 31.

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Le Monde also said that Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the Court’s majority that “the Colorado law regulates the content of her expression,” and that the Court remanded the case to lower courts to review their rulings adverse to Kaley Chiles in light of the decision.

The Le Club des Juristes account said the Supreme Court agreed in October 2025 to hear Colorado’s law, and that in its decision of March 31, 2026 the Court accepted Chiles’s argument and remanded for review under “strict scrutiny.”

Le Monde said Chiles argued that the Colorado law violates the First Amendment, and it quoted Gorsuch’s majority reasoning that “the First Amendment is a shield against any attempt to impose an orthodoxy of thought or speech in this country.”

In the same Le Monde account, liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson expressed disagreement, reproaching her colleagues for “opening a Pandora’s box” by undermining states’ ability to regulate the practice of medical professions.

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Le Club des Juristes described how the dispute began with Kaley Chiles, who argued that the law deprives her of her right to speak freely with her clients about how she believes she can help them either to “modify” their sexual attraction or behavior, or to “realign” their identity with their biological sex.

Le Club des Juristes also said the Court characterized the regulation as regulating speech rather than professional conduct, making it “presumed unconstitutional,” and requiring the government to show the restriction is “narrowly tailored to serve compelling state interests.”

Beyond conversion-therapy litigation, Open Global Rights said that in June 2020 the U.S. Supreme Court determined that transgender employees cannot be legally fired simply for being transgender, and it described Aimee Stephens as the woman at the center of the case who died one month before the ruling was announced.

“There have been incredible advances for LGBTI rights around the world”

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AmeliaRueda reported that the Supreme Court would hear challenges to Idaho and West Virginia state laws that bar transgender athletes from competing in women’s categories, and it said the Court would decide whether the bans violate Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause.

AmeliaRueda also said President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed at prohibiting transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports, and it quoted Trump saying, “From now on, women's sports will be for women only.”

In a separate account, Nación321 said the Supreme Court upheld Idaho and West Virginia laws prohibiting transgender girls and women from competing in women’s sports categories, and it described the decision as having repercussions for the rights of transgender people across the country.