Overview

• Oral arguments are set for Oct. 7 in Chiles v. Salazar, which targets Colorado’s 2019 law barring licensed providers from performing conversion therapy on minors.
• Counselor Kaley Chiles, represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, argues the law censors her counseling and enforces viewpoint discrimination.
• Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser defends the measure as a patient‑safety rule addressing substandard care and says the statute regulates practice, not ideas.
• Major medical groups, including the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, condemn conversion therapy and cite links to depression and suicide risk.
• A federal district court and the 10th Circuit upheld the law, and the decision could affect similar bans in more than 20 states, with the Trump administration set to support Chiles at argument.