Supreme Court Backs Christian Counselor on Gender Therapy

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The Supreme Court just dropped an 8-1 ruling backing a Christian counselor in Colorado

who challenged a state law banning certain talk, therapy on gender identity for kids.

The Justices said the law hits free speech hard under the First Amendment and kicked it

back to a lower court to check if it passes strict legal.

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Just as Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion, calling out the law for censoring

speech based on viewpoint and stressing how the First Amendment blocks any push for

thocontrol.

Meanwhile, Justice Katanjee Brown-Jackson descended alone, arguing states need room to regulate

health care, even if it touches speech and warn this.

Could mess with medical oversight big time.

This fits a pattern where the court has sided with religious freedom claims lately, while

eyeing LGBTQ plus writes more skeptically.

The counselor, Kaley Childs, says her faith-based approach for voluntary sessions with

parents and kids isn't like old school conversion therapy with, shocks or whatever, and the

Trump Air Administration backed her push.

Colorado fought back, saying therapy counts as health care they must oversee, not pure

speech, with potential fines or license hits, though no bodies.

Been punished under a yet, she-eyes got help from the Alliance Defending Freedom, the

same group that won for a Christian web designer, refusing same-sex wedding sites.

As this heads to lower courts, expect ripple effects knocking down similar bands in other

states, reshaping how faith, speech and therapy mix in the gender debate.