The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday in Chiles v. Salazar, which challenges a Colorado law banning licensed mental health practitioners from trying to change a young person’s sexual or gender identity — a practice widely known as conversion therapy.

It’s the first time the nation’s highest court has accepted a case on such prohibitions, and how the justices rule could have far-reaching consequences for the regulation of medicine and the balancing of civil rights for LGBTQ+ people against religious freedom, since conversion therapy is often conducted in a religious context or by religious leaders.

“The stakes are very high in terms of conversion therapy itself — because it is so incredibly dangerous and harmful — but also [there are] much broader ramifications for states’ ab

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