{"id":7417,"date":"2025-10-07T23:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T23:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/conversion-therapy-supreme-court-medical-regulation\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T23:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T23:02:23","slug":"conversion-therapy-supreme-court-medical-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/conversion-therapy-supreme-court-medical-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"As Supreme Court weighs conversion therapy, conservative justices question medical authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    As Supreme Court weighs conversion therapy, conservative justices question medical authority<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>At the Supreme Court on Tuesday, a majority of justices seemed poised to rule against a Colorado law banning licensed mental health practitioners from engaging in any therapy that tries to change a young person\u2019s sexual or gender identity. The justices have until the end of June 2026 to release their decision on the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the ruling could have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/10\/06\/supreme-court-chiles-v-salazar-conversion-therapy-challenge\/\">clear impacts<\/a> on young LGBTQ+ people and the future of so-called conversion therapy, the arguments also suggested it could have implications for the ways in which medicine is regulated more broadly, and how medical consensus and standards of care are considered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/10\/07\/conversion-therapy-supreme-court-medical-regulation\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Theresa Gaffney<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/10\/07\/conversion-therapy-supreme-court-medical-regulation\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Supreme Court weighs conversion therapy, conservative justices question medical authority At the Supreme Court on Tuesday, a majority of justices seemed poised to rule against a Colorado law banning licensed mental health practitioners from engaging in any therapy that tries to change a young person\u2019s sexual or gender identity. The justices have until the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2433,1428,153,2470,2413],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-7417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-health","category-health","category-legal","category-lgbtq","category-supreme-court","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}