Court to Rule on Pro-LGBTQ Psychotherapy

The US Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal of this decision upholding a Colorado law, and briefs are going online. Wikipedia explains:

Colorado's Minor Conversion Therapy Law (MCTL), passed in 2019, prohibits licensed mental health professionals from engaging in conversion therapy with clients under 18 with an exemption for therapists "engaged in the practice of religious ministry". Conversion therapy refers to practices aiming to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity. Over 20 states have similar laws which are supported by major medical organizations.[2][1] The Supreme Court has turned down earlier cases challenging state bans on conversion therapy.[2]

So if a minor seeks advice about his/her sexual identity, the Colorado psychotherapist can push the child into being LGBTQ, but cannot help him/her be normal or straight.

I am expecting the Supreme Court to overturn this crazy Leftist law. If not, I expect Republican states to start passing laws saying that licensed psychotherapists must treat LGBTQ patients as having a disorder where the cure is to go straight.

The lower court said, 2-1, that the law is consistent is the policies of major psychological organizations and:

We thus have no trouble concluding the MCTL is rationally related to Colorado’s interest in protecting minor patients seeking mental health care from obtaining ineffective and harmful therapeutic modalities.

But most psychotherapy is effective and harmful. If that were the standard, it would all be abolished.

The backers of this law say that a scientific consensus is in their favor, but when asked for scientific studies, they say that would be unethical!

The dissent says:

Science has enjoyed tremendous respect because of the great advances it has made since the beginning of the scientific revolution. But it has not made those advances by respecting “authority.” To give just one illustration, although Albert Einstein is widely recognized as the greatest of physicists, virtually all theoretical physicists, then and now, have rejected his views of the nature of quantum mechanics. ...

the briefs of appellees and several amici emphasize the official positions taken by national professional organizations. But I have no idea of the process by which those positions were arrived at or who actually made the decisions, and it really does not matter unless they are based on persuasive evidence. Consensus is irrelevant to science. A book by one great physicist reports a comment by an even greater one that makes the point: “When a book was published entitled 100 Authors Against Einstein, [Einstein] retorted, ‘If I were wrong, then one would have been enough!’” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time 193 (1996).

The Left and the Democrat Party today is obsessed with pushing LGBTQ ideology on underage children. I believe that the purpose is grooming children for abuse by adults.

What other explanation is there? Colorado is literally using state-licensed pyschotherapists to counsel children to engage in perverted sexual acts or be transgender. And trying to carve an exception to First Amendment free speech in order to prevent those children from learning the truth.