Overview

• Oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar are scheduled for October 7, 2025, focusing on Colorado’s law restricting so‑called conversion therapy for minors.
• The Colorado statute bars therapists from subjecting young people to treatments that claim to change sexual orientation or gender identity or pressure them to do so.
• Petitioner Kaley Chiles, a Colorado mental health counselor who does not treat LGBTQ youth, argues the law violates her free‑speech rights and is represented by Alliance Defending Freedom.
• Colorado defends the measure as a regulation of professional conduct in therapeutic settings and notes it does not prevent open discussion of identity.
• Major medical organizations, including the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Medical Association, condemn conversion practices as harmful, and the United Nations has compared them to torture.