06/03/2026
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BREAKINGđ¨đłď¸âđ On day two of Pride, Colorado just found a way around the Supreme Court and drove a legal stake through the heart of conversion therapy â turning survivorsâ trauma into the thing that finally puts these âpray the gay awayâ scammers out of business.
Hereâs what happened. In March, the Supreme Courtâs conservative supermajority gutted Coloradoâs old ban on conversion therapy, saying it wasnât âviewpoint neutralâ because it only targeted attempts to change LGBTQ kids, not efforts to push them toward being straight or cis.
The ruling put bans in more than two dozen states in jeopardy and handed antiâLGBTQ groups a massive win. Instead of backing down, Colorado lawmakers went back to the drawing board. Yesterday, Governor Jared Polis â the nationâs first openly gay governor â signed HB26â1322 on the first day of Pride.
The new law does something smart and brutal. It doesnât get into theology or âviewpointsâ at all; it treats conversion therapy as what it actually is: professional malpractice.
Any licensed mental health provider who tries to steer a minor toward a âpredetermined outcomeâ for their sexual orientation or gender identity â in any direction â can now be sued for damages, with no statute of limitations. Survivors can go after therapists, their supervisors, and even the clinics that hired them.
The bill explicitly covers attempts to âeliminate or reduceâ sameâsex attraction or nonâcis identities, but it does so by banning the practice of outcomeâdriven manipulation itself, not any one opinion.
Polis paired the law with an executive order instructing state agencies to ensure public funds are never used to support conversion therapy programs. In his signing statement, he spelled out why this matters: conversion therapy is harmful, traumatizes kids, and rips off families by promising to change who youâre attracted to or who you are.
LGBTQ advocates like The Trevor Project point out that young people subjected to these âtreatmentsâ face dramatically higher rates of depression, selfâharm, and su***de attempts.
For those survivors, HB26â1322 doesnât just say âthis is banned.â It says: what happened to you was wrong, it was the fault of professionals who abused their power, and you have the right to drag them into court â whether they hurt you last year or decades ago.
So on one side we have a Supreme Court that just told states they canât simply outlaw conversion therapistsâ words because of âviewpoint discrimination.â On the other, we now have Colorado saying: fine, weâll hit them where the First Amendment doesnât protect them â in their wallets and their licenses, as providers of bogus, damaging âcare.â
Thatâs not just a blueâstate protest. Itâs a blueprint for every state that refuses to let a farâright Court turn kids into lab rats for junk science and religious extremism.
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