The conversion therapy case shows conservatives want to talk kids about sex...

[Jessica_Rose]

The conversion therapy case shows conservatives want to talk kids about sex but only to shame them

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/the-conversion-therapy-case-shows-conservatives-want-to-talk-kids-about-but-only-to-shame-them/ 🔗

Alex Bollinger (9 Oct 2025)

A conservative Christian is literally asking the Supreme Court to give her permission to talk to minors who are not her children about sex. And the right is more than ok with it. Shockingly, despite all their rhetoric about how no one should talk to kids about sex except for their parents, they're on her side because she shares their ideological agenda.

That's what's going on with the Supreme Court case Chiles v. Salazar. The same people who believe it's "grooming" and "sexualizing" for a teacher to read a book to children about two male penguins raising a child now want anti-science therapists to talk to kids about what God wants them to do with their genitals.

In 2022, rightwing commentator Tucker Carlson said it was "common sense" not to talk to kids about their genitals because it's "disgusting and probably illegal." Candace Owens, formerly of the Daily Wire, said that a sex educator "should have to register as a sex offender" for telling kids it's normal to be curious about their bodies. Fox's Jesse Watters said that teachers talking about LGBTQ+ people to students is "the same types of behaviors that people do use when they do groom children to exploit them for sexual purposes."

But based on their beliefs, one would think that these same people would have a problem with Christian counselor Kaley Chiles, who is asking the Supreme Court to let her talk to minors about sex.

[Lori Dee]

Interesting that throughout all the accusations of "grooming", no one ever seems to be arrested for it. If it is so widespread, where are the crime statistics on it?

And if it isn't a crime, why bring it up? It often turns out that the people doing the accusing are, in fact, the perpetrators. That is something we see in the news fairly often.