Overview

• The conservative-majority court will hear Chiles v. Salazar on Oct. 7, examining Colorado’s prohibition as a First Amendment question.
• Colorado’s 2019 law bars licensed providers from performing efforts to change a child’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
• Therapist Kaley Chiles, represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, argues the statute censors counseling by imposing viewpoint-based limits on what she can say.
• Attorney General Phil Weiser defends the measure as policing substandard care, says discussion of the practice remains lawful, and warns a ruling for Chiles could erode states’ power to enforce standards of care.
• The outcome could affect similar restrictions in nearly half the states and continues a line of Colorado cases before the Court after 303 Creative and Masterpiece Cakeshop.