Supreme Court to decide if states may ban attempts to 'convert' gay and transgender youth

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The oral arguments start Tuesday morning at 10:00 a.m. You’ll be able to listen in.

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Supreme Court to decide if states may ban attempts to ‘convert’ gay and transgender youth

UPDATED 18 HR AGO
UPDATED OCT 6, 2025, 10:06 AM ET
PUBLISHED OCT 6, 2025, 5:00 AM ET
By John Fritze


Joseph Fons holding a Pride Flag in front of the Supreme Court on June 15, 2020. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Matt Salmon remembers getting into a circle with the other teenagers in his group therapy session and shouting obscenities at a gay boy forced to stand in the middle.

And he recalls being made to sit on the floor and hug other men because, his therapist said, his sexuality was driven by a “void” that needed to be filled with “healthy male intimacy.”

Nearly 20 years later, Salmon is still shaken by his late teenage experience with “conversion therapy,” the discredited practice that purports to “convert” gay people to heterosexuality and is the focus of a blockbuster appeal to be argued before the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

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