This is why I personally wasn’t worried about the ruling even though I’m sure many in the community were. The lib justices explained in their opinions the very simple way to get around this ruling, which it also why it was and 8-1 ruling.
In short: Colorado’s new law goes around the Supreme Court ruling by changing the ban from a viewpoint-based speech restriction into a viewpoint-neutral professional conduct rule.
SCOTUS ruled that the law violated the First Amendment because it prohibited therapists from expressing one side of a conversation about sexuality/gender identity while allowing the opposite side. The Court viewed that as “viewpoint discrimination” against certain therapeutic speech.
The new Colorado law rewrites the definition so that any attempt by a licensed therapist to push a minor toward ANY predetermined identity outcome is prohibited — regardless of direction, so no more viewpoint discrimination.
The lib justices opinions made it easy to get around the ruling to those who read their opinions.
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This is why I personally wasn’t worried about the ruling even though I’m sure many in the community were. The lib justices explained in their opinions the very simple way to get around this ruling, which it also why it was and 8-1 ruling.
In short: Colorado’s new law goes around the Supreme Court ruling by changing the ban from a viewpoint-based speech restriction into a viewpoint-neutral professional conduct rule.
SCOTUS ruled that the law violated the First Amendment because it prohibited therapists from expressing one side of a conversation about sexuality/gender identity while allowing the opposite side. The Court viewed that as “viewpoint discrimination” against certain therapeutic speech.
The old law focused on outcomes like:
reducing same-sex attraction, changing gender identity, encouraging heterosexuality/cisgender identity.
The new Colorado law rewrites the definition so that any attempt by a licensed therapist to push a minor toward ANY predetermined identity outcome is prohibited — regardless of direction, so no more viewpoint discrimination.
The lib justices opinions made it easy to get around the ruling to those who read their opinions.