http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/85c94fabe9aeac89 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-harms-of-speech/ The Harms of Speech - Conversion Therapy Bans before the US Supreme Court Thoreson, Ryan eng 2025-10-28 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Barrett Amy Coney | 1972– | Juristin; Rechtsanwältin Conversion Therapy First Amendment Free Speech Gorsuch Neil M. | 1967– | Richter; Jurist LGBT Rights LGBTQ+ rights SCOTUS Sotomayor Sonia | 1954– | Juristin children's rights Barrett Amy Coney | 1972– | Juristin; Rechtsanwältin Gorsuch Neil M. | 1967– | Richter; Jurist Sotomayor Sonia | 1954– | Juristin Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The United States Supreme Court seems poised to strike down state restrictions that prohibit medical professionals from engaging in so-called “conversion therapy,” or efforts to make a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) person heterosexual or cisgender. Although the Supreme Court has declined to hear similar challenges in the past, the arc of its First Amendment jurisprudence and its skepticism of constitutional claims involving sexual and reproductive rights suggest that the restriction at issue is likely to be invalidated.