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The Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Washington state's gay "conversion therapy" ban from a counselor who says the law violates his free speech rights.
The Supreme Court declined to take up a case seeking to overturn Washington state's ban on the practice of conversion therapy for minors who say they are gay or lesbian, prompting the court's most conservative members to say they would have granted it.
The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a Washington state law prohibiting licensed health care professionals from practicing “conversion therapy” – a scientifically discredited practice intended to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity – as it applies to minors.
Countless organizations, including the American Psychological Association, American Psychiatric Association, and World Health Organization, have all denounced the practice.
Thomas wrote that his colleague should have taken up the Washington case because “licensed counselors cannot voice anything other than the state-approved opinion on minors with gender dysphoria without facing punishment.”