MacDonald: Are Conversion Therapy Bans About To Be Banned?

Kaley Chiles is a Christian counselor whom the State of Colorado has muzzled. The Centennial State is one of more than two dozen that have conversion therapy bans on the books. She is prohibited by law from talking to her patients about gender transition unless it is to advocate for it.

Before the popularization of the lie that chemistry and surgery can remake you into the opposite sex, the ban was crafted to prevent almost anyone from daring to suggest you might not be gay, lesbian, or bisexual.

In states like mine, the prohibition was extended to pastors, priests, coaches, guidance counselors, and anyone who might represent a position of wisdom, knowledge, or authority, regardless of whether any of those qualities applied to them or not.

You could encourage them to be gay or a lesbian if that were the question, but you could not even suggest it might be a phase.

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