A federal appeals court blocked Michigan’s 2023 ban on counseling for minors that aims to dissuade patients from pursuing a so-called gender transition, declaring it violates the First Amendment rights of therapists.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit voted 2-1 on Dec. 17 to issue a preliminary injunction temporarily halting the state law in Catholic Charities v. Whitmer.
This kind of counseling, sometimes called conversion therapy, can encompass “any emotional or physical therapy used to ‘cure’ or ‘repair’ a person’s attraction to the same sex, or their gender identity and expression,” according to WebMD….