06/03/2026
BREAKING🚨🏳️🌈 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 — turning survivors’ trauma into the thing that finally puts these “pray the gay away” scammers out of business.
Here’s what happened. In March, the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority gutted Colorado’s old ban on conversion therapy, saying it wasn’t “viewpoint neutral” 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 anti‑LGBTQ groups a massive win. Instead of backing down, Colorado lawmakers went back to the drawing board. Yesterday, Governor Jared Polis — the nation’s first openly gay governor — signed HB26‑1322 on the first day of Pride.
The new law does something smart and brutal. It doesn’t get into theology or “viewpoints” 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 “predetermined outcome” for their s*xual orientation or gender identity — in any direction — 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 “eliminate or reduce” same‑s*x attraction or non‑cis identities, but it does so by banning the practice of outcome‑driven 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 you’re attracted to or who you are.
LGBTQ advocates like The Trevor Project point out that young people subjected to these “treatments” face dramatically higher rates of depression, self‑harm, and su***de attempts.
For those survivors, HB26‑1322 doesn’t just say “this is banned.” 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 — whether they hurt you last year or decades ago.
So on one side we have a Supreme Court that just told states they can’t simply outlaw conversion therapists’ words because of “viewpoint discrimination.” On the other, we now have Colorado saying: fine, we’ll hit them where the First Amendment doesn’t protect them — in their wallets and their licenses, as providers of bogus, damaging “care.”
That’s not just a blue‑state protest. It’s a blueprint for every state that refuses to let a far‑right Court turn kids into lab rats for junk science and religious extremism.
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