The Supreme Court agreed Monday in a case from Colorado to decide whether state and local governments can enforce laws banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children.

The conservative-led court is taking up the case amid actions by President Donald Trump targeting transgender people, including a ban on military service and an end to federal funding for gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

The justices also have heard arguments in a Tennessee case over whether state bans on treating transgender minors violate the Constitution. But they have yet to issue a decision.

Colorado is among roughly half the states that prohibit the practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling.

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    We’re on our way to state-sanctioned physical and emotional torture. They won’t stop at trans people, or gay people, either. When one group loses their rights, everyone does.

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      Yep, the statement from RFK about sending people on anti-depressants to migrant farms should scare the fuck out of people. This admin is getting better and better at snatching people up and their supporters not giving a flying fuck

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    Gee … I wonder how Trumps Supreme Court will decide.

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    How long until they pass a law forcing all LGBTQ+ people to suffer this torture? Are they going to force them to wear pink triangles again? Awful.