Kylie Chiles: I’m a consultant. The Supreme Court has backed me on Colorado’s sex-related rules

It is reassuring that the court will be protected Freedom of expression. While officials in Colorado may sincerely believe a boy can become a girl, our country was founded on the right to engage in healthy debate — even when the government disagrees with us.

This provision also helps protect the mental, physical and emotional health of our children. but Colorado law Endangers their health. Specifically, this law requires counselors like me to avoid conversations with young clients who want to realign their identity with their gender, while encouraging children to reject their gender.

Supreme Court blocks Colorado’s so-called “conversion therapy” ban on First Amendment grounds

In effect, the state forces counselors to remain silent or participate in a one-size-fits-all mandate that pushes children down a path of gender transition and toward drugs and dangerous surgeries. This mandate prevents some children and families from getting the counseling they want that actually helps them — counseling to help them accept their bodies. Colorado believes it knows better than families what counseling they should receive.

This victory calls for more action. I call on counselors to rethink the claims of gender ideology that one can be born into the wrong body, and to recommit to protecting young people.

The law also limits my best instincts as a critical thinker and clinically trained counselor. I should listen to my clients rather than steer them toward a state-determined outcome. Instead, state law would force me to suppress my beliefs and professional training, when it is this very combination that often attracts clients to seek me out.

The Supreme Court building is shown in Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Tuesday that Colorado cannot enforce its so-called “conversion therapy” ban regarding conversations between therapists and minors, saying the law would likely violate the First Amendment by allowing some viewpoints but not others. (John Elswick/AP)

Censorship in Colorado deprives these young people of what they want most: someone to talk to who truly listens to them… who tries to understand their individual experiences and sensitivities… who can walk with them through their pain and confusion and help them find their way to informed decisions and a happier future.

Fortunately, our highest court now recognized the danger of what Colorado and other states were doing to my career. Throughout our history, government officials have repeatedly tried to use censorship in the name of protecting people from hearing ideas deemed too dangerous. Once again, the court had to explain why censorship could not be the solution to our differences. With their decision, the justices offer Colorado a refresher on the fundamentals of the First Amendment and affirm that the government cannot silence viewpoints in the consulting room.

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But this victory calls for more work. I call on counselors to rethink the claims of gender ideology that one can be born into the wrong body, and to recommit to protecting young people. Research indicates that most Children with gender identity disorder – including about 90% of pre-pubescent children – will desist, meaning they will identify as their assigned gender. But these normal rates of abstinence collapse once children begin to socialize and are treated like the opposite sex. The lack of resistance means that an increasing number of children end up subjected to harmful drugs and surgeries with no proven benefits.

Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court pose for their official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on October 7, 2022. (Olivier Daulieri/AFP via Getty Images)

Just because some professional groups cite their own authority as “proof” otherwise, and some in the media embrace the fad, does not make it so. Rather, we should study Science that explicitly contradicts heresy We do so with the same fairness and rigor that we apply to other issues in our profession. Let us acknowledge that, as a profession, we have, according to many, lost public trust and must work to rebuild it.

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Children with identity issues deserve it.

These are the opportunities that the Supreme Court ruling will help realize. I hope we can share the justices’ commitment to protecting young people and their families from bad science, crushing freedoms, and political interference with the right to seek truth without silencing them.

Callie Chiles is a licensed professional counselor in Colorado.