SCOTUS will be considering a case about what therapists are allowed to say to clients about sexual orientation and sexual identity
I consider this an important case:
Kaley Chiles is a Christian counselor in Colorado. When the state passed a law forcing mental health professionals to advance radical gender ideology, she challenged it. Now, the Supreme Court has agreed to review the case — in what could bring a landmark ruling for free speech.
“The government has no business censoring private conversations between clients and counselors, nor should a counselor be used as a tool to impose the government’s biased views on her clients,” said Kristen Waggoner, CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom — which is representing Chiles — in a news release.
Chiles challenged Colorado’s law banning so-called “conversion therapy” in 2022, according to The Hill, saying it hindered her efforts to assist those with “same-sex attractions or gender identity confusion” who “prioritize their faith above their feelings.” She “never promises that she can solve” these issues but works to help clients “accept the bodies that God has given them and find peace.” Chiles sought an injunction, citing the law’s violation of her First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
The 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against Chiles, but in November, her attorneys petitioned the Supreme Court to consider the case, according to SCOTUSblog.
ADF said the Colorado law violates Chiles’ freedom of speech by banning counselors from “having any conversation with clients under age 18 that ‘attempts or purports to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity.’”
Some “conversion therapists” formerly used harsh methods such as administering electric shocks to patients. But this suit is about a totally different thing: talking to patients under 18 who want to explore all possibilities, including – for example – whether or not their sexual desires are exclusively gay or whether it’s possible for them to live a heterosexual life – and if so, to encourage them towards the latter. Or conversing with teenagers who have encountered pro-transition websites, might have a history of sexual abuse and/or Asperger’s, and who want to sort it all out without going to a gender affirming counselor who will only reinforce the idea of transition as a solution.
I have some retired therapist friends who are Democrats, and a few years ago when I told them that anything other than “gender-affirming” therapy was discouraged or even sometimes banned they were aghast. That’s how quickly the policies have changed, and how radically.
What is banned under the Colorado law is described this way: “efforts to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attraction or feelings toward individuals of the same sex.” That’s pretty darn broad.
The skein of the thought police is being unraveled on thread at a time.
I have no idea what a gender is and I think it’s imaginary. I’ll explain. In1981 I went to Germany on a government contract. Since I didn’t speak German, I signed up to take German lessons and I was told that German nouns had gender, masculine, feminine or neuter and the gender was determined by the article. I said. well that’s nice, who assigns gender, how can you tell what noun has what gender and what does this gender do for me? I was basically told shut up, sit down and stop interrupting class. I never got a satisfactory explanation of gender. Ever worse, some of the nouns changed gender when their use changed, for instance when they changed from singular to plural. I asked how you kept track of those transgendered nouns. I was told to forget about it since it even confused the Germans. Now I’m being told that humans have gender and I’m asking what is the physical basis for this gender and nobody will tell me.
THANK YOU trans mad billionaires named Pritzker for foisting this legal insanity upon us.
A days old interview with Houston lawyer Marcella Burke who defends de-transitioners and sues for gender ideology malpractice is asked who is leading this trans madness?
Opportunists and money machines at hospitals is a big one. Maje ’em pay $3 million in damages is her goal in Texas, and her 16 member law firm.
But later, during W&A, Burke admits there is a frightening True Believer element among doctors, going by their social media postings
There is not just a God Complex manifesting here, but a bizarre super God Complex here. They believe they are in the vanguard of creating new life, she explains.
https://youtu.be/bnnkew7AYIc?
Burke even raises the possibility of Nuremberg style trials against these evil fraudulent malpracticioners.
THANK YOU trans mad billionaires named Pritzker for foisting this legal insanity upon us.
A days old interview with Houston lawyer Marcella Burke who defends de-transitioners and sues for gender ideology malpractice is asked who is leading this trans madness?
Opportunists and money machines at hospitals is a big one. Maje ’em pay $3 million in damages is her goal in Texas, and her 16 member law firm.
But later, during W&A, Burke admits there is a frightening True Believer element among doctors, going by their social media postings
There is not just a God Complex manifesting here, but a bizarre super God Complex here. They believe they are in the vanguard of creating new life, she explains.
https://youtu.be/bnnkew7AYIc?
Burke even raises the possibility of Nuremberg style trials against these evil fraudulent malpracticioners.
Jennifer Bilek has done tremendous work exposing the massive funding behind the transgender insanity, from the Pritzkers and others, along with the transhumanist implications. Her work can be found here and you can find interviews with her on YouTube:
https://www.the11thhourblog.com/
These laws against “conversion therapy” nonetheless allow, or encourage, therapy intended to endorse a patient’s gender dysphoria, and they allow, or encourage, therapy intended to endorse a patient’s sexual orientation so long as it’s not an interest in the opposite sex.
Oh, it gets better:
To what extent can a therapist continue on the subject if the client wants to talk about it.
@Ray:I said. well that’s nice, who assigns gender, how can you tell what noun has what gender and what does this gender do for me?
It’s just a grammar rule. About 1/4 of all languages have it. It’s of no more rhyme or reason than why we say “isn’t” but don’t say “amn’t”. You just have to memorize gender or people look at you funny. A German cat is feminine, a German girl is neuter, a German cheese is masculine*.
French and Spanish and Italian have it too. Hebrew has it. Irish has it. English doesn’t so we insist on trying to map it to “sex” and getting confused (why is a cat always feminine if we don’t know if it’s a tomcat). Academics have exploited this and created a concept of “gender” as “the expression of a sex role”, and conflated it with biological sex, quite deliberately.
*die Katze, das Mädchen, der Käse. Most Germans in casual speech will not call a girl “it” though, at least according to my high school German text. Most of the feminine nouns end in -e except Käse, “cheese”, which is just being a jerk.
The interested reader is referred to Mark Twain’s essay The Awful German Language:
I think Ray may have been kidding, but I really enjoyed Mark Twain on German. Thanks!