LGBTQ+ advocacy groups file brief defending Colorado conversion therapy ban for minorsU.S. Supreme Court will hear case challenging 2019 law in October
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August 28, 2025, 4:00 am
A group of Colorado and national LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations filed an amicus brief this week defending Colorado's 2019 law banning conversion therapy for minors in a case challenging the law before the U.S. Supreme Court.
One Colorado and Rocky Mountain Equality, two Colorado-based LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations, as well as PFLAG, the National Center for Youth Law, the National Center for LGBTQ Rights, the National Health Law Program, and Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Elders filed the brief ...
"As organizations that have worked with LGBTQ survivors of conversion therapy, amici are well acquainted with the severe, long-term harm that conversion therapy causes for individuals, families, and communities," the brief reads. "Colorado's statute protecting minors from conversion therapy by licensed professionals is not only a reasonable means of addressing these harms, it directly and narrowly advances important, and indeed compelling, governmental interests."
Other amicus briefs in support of the Colorado law were filed this week by national advocacy groups including The Trevor Project and the Conversion Therapy Survivor Network, as well as Democratic attorneys general from 21 states and nearly 200 Democratic members of Congress.---------------------
An equal number of Republican-run states and a long list of conservative religious organizations were among those who filed briefs in support of the petitioners in June.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the case on Oct. 7.
