Supreme Court Backs Christian Counselor on Gender Therapy

0:00It's March 31st. Welcome in. This is Canada News Today, where local news meets AI. The Supreme Court just dropped an 8-1 ruling backing a Christian counselor in Colorado who challenged a state law banning certain talk, therapy on gender identity for kids. The Justices said the law hits free speech hard under the First Amendment and kicked it back to a lower court to check if it passes strict legal. Muster Just as Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion, calling out the law for censoring speech based on viewpoint and stressing how the First Amendment blocks any push for thocontrol. Meanwhile, Justice Katanjee Brown-Jackson descended alone, arguing states need room to regulate health care, even if it touches speech and warn this. Could mess with medical oversight big time. This fits a pattern where the court has sided with religious freedom claims lately, while eyeing LGBTQ plus writes more skeptically. The counselor, Kaley Childs, says her faith-based approach for voluntary sessions with parents and kids isn't like old school conversion therapy with, shocks or whatever, and the

1:04Trump Air Administration backed her push. Colorado fought back, saying therapy counts as health care they must oversee, not pure speech, with potential fines or license hits, though no bodies. Been punished under a yet, she-eyes got help from the Alliance Defending Freedom, the same group that won for a Christian web designer, refusing same-sex wedding sites. As this heads to lower courts, expect ripple effects knocking down similar bands in other states, reshaping how faith, speech and therapy mix in the gender debate.