Brad Polumbo
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 17 Jul
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Well, this is a huge Supreme Court case, and it's frankly kind of one that would have baffled me a couple of years ago thinking about it for a couple of reasons.
I mean, the idea that two Democratic-appointed Supreme Court justices would have actually agreed with the conservative majority to strike down LGBT rights, in air quotes there, legislation that bans conversion therapy, as they call it in Colorado.
I mean, that would have been unthinkable to me.
a couple of years ago that there would be that kind of cross ideological agreement.
And that should be the first sign to folks at home that this is not some crazy far right Supreme Court decision that's gonna start shocking the gay out of confused teenagers again.
What this is instead is frankly common sense.
I have actually and it's been a little bit of a journey for me because I've advocated for years that I do think
anti-gay conversion therapy in terms of treatments like shock therapy and that kind of thing should be illegal.
It doesn't work.
And I think it's a fraudulent medical practice.
But these laws were so broad and so sweeping that they essentially covered
talk therapy.
They said you could not, as a psychological provider, you couldn't even talk to your clients about their gender identity or sexuality unless you were saying the things they wanted you to say about it.
That's obviously a free speech issue.
And especially as it lumps in gender identity, it's almost malpractice to just blindly affirm whatever they tell you.
But that was literally the law in Colorado that's now being sent back for review and will almost certainly be struck down
Yeah, so that's what I mean.
The law defined conversion therapy so broadly that it went so far beyond the scope of anything you or I would have thought of as conversion therapy.
What it said was that a therapist even talking to you and not affirming your gender, so if
Say, for example, you have a 12-year-old that comes in that thinks their non-binary is their gender identity.
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