{"id":70762,"date":"2026-04-03T02:59:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/colorado-house-advances-conversion-therapy-lawsuit-bill-gop-lawmaker-calls-it-slap-in-the-face-to-scotus\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T02:59:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:59:49","slug":"colorado-house-advances-conversion-therapy-lawsuit-bill-gop-lawmaker-calls-it-slap-in-the-face-to-scotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/colorado-house-advances-conversion-therapy-lawsuit-bill-gop-lawmaker-calls-it-slap-in-the-face-to-scotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado House advances conversion therapy lawsuit bill; GOP lawmaker calls it \u2018slap in the face\u2019 to SCOTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Democratic-controlled Colorado House passed a bill Thursday allowing people harmed by conversion therapy to sue therapists, just days after the Supreme Court<\/a> blocked enforcement of the state\u2019s ban on the method.<\/p>\n

HB26-1322 would establish a pathway for Coloradans to bring civil claims against licensed mental health professionals accused of causing harm through efforts to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation or gender identity.<\/p>\n

The bill also allows people to seek legal action against the entities that hired and supervised a professional who conducted conversion therapy. The bill now heads to the state Senate,<\/a> which is also controlled by Democrats, for consideration.<\/p>\n

The measure could open the door to lawsuits years after therapy takes place and expose providers to significant financial liability.<\/p>\n

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The legislation was advanced just days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Colorado<\/a> cannot enforce its conversion therapy ban regarding conversations between therapists and LGBTQ+ minors, arguing the law likely violates the First Amendment by allowing some viewpoints but not others.<\/p>\n

In an 8-1 decision Tuesday<\/a>, the court said the law favors one viewpoint by allowing therapists to affirm a minor’s gender identity or sexual orientation, but not help them change it if they want to.<\/p>\n

Matt Soper, a Republican in the Colorado House<\/a>, told Fox News Digital that the new bill pushed by Democrats is a “slap in the face” to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

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“We have a bill that\u2019s designed to be a de facto ban on conversion therapy moving forward,” Soper said.<\/p>\n

“That just hits at the heartstrings of the average American, that the Supreme Court can\u2019t even have a ruling be hot off the press before you have a legislature already pushing to undo what the Supreme Court just ruled,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“At the bottom line, there\u2019s not even a sense of what the law is or can be from the Supreme Court when you have states that are already working really hard to undermine an 8-1 ruling.<\/p>\n

“Americans don’t like it when you have a legislature immediately trying to overturn or undermine the highest court in the land before the printing has even cooled down.”<\/p>\n

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The sponsors of the bill in the Colorado House, Reps. Alex Valdez and Karen McCormick, released a statement following the high court\u2019s ruling, reiterating that conversion therapy is “ineffective and harmful.”<\/p>\n

“In Colorado, you belong just the way you are. Now more than ever, we must protect LGBTQ+ Coloradans<\/a> from the harmful practice that is conversion therapy. We vow to keep moving forward to safeguard the rights of the LGBTQ+ community in Colorado,” the lawmakers said.<\/p>\n

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The Supreme Court\u2019s decision stemmed from a lawsuit brought by Kaley Chiles, a licensed Christian therapist, who argued her conversations with youth clients were a form of protected speech.<\/p>\n

The Colorado government argued the conversations amounted to professional conduct that the state was allowed to regulate.<\/p>\n

The case centered on a law Colorado passed in 2019 banning what the state government described as conversion therapy.<\/p>\n

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While the 2019 law required that claims against providers be filed within two years, HB26-1322 would remove time limits for legal action, and if the victim has died, their representatives could pursue damages within five years of the individual\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Soper criticized the bill for lacking a cap on recoverable damages or a statute of limitations on claims.<\/p>\n

“A mental health therapist<\/a> could actually be liable for their entire life,” he said.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Michael Dorgan and Ashley Oliver contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Democratic-controlled Colorado House passed a bill Thursday allowing people harmed by conversion therapy to sue therapists, just days after the Supreme Court blocked enforcement of the state\u2019s ban on the method. HB26-1322 would establish a pathway for Coloradans to bring civil claims against licensed mental health professionals accused of causing harm through efforts to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}