Court Misreads Therapy Science

The Supreme Court’s handling of the Colorado conversion‑therapy case rests on a muddled clinical distinction: judges and some media outlets are treating routine exploratory gender‑affirming talk therapy as equivalent to goal‑directed conversion therapy. That conflation risks converting state public‑health protections into protected speech and could reopen legal pathways for harmful interventions on minors. — If courts and media keep erasing the clinical difference between exploratory therapy and conversion therapy, state bans and clinical safeguards for LGBTQ+ youth may be weakened nationwide.