How a SCOTUS decision could impact a Cincinnati ban
UC Law professor speaks with WVXU’s Cincinnati Edition
The Supreme Court recently ruled a Colorado ban on conversion therapy amounted to viewpoint discrimination and sent the case back to lower courts to apply a new standard.
The High Court in an 8-1 majority opinion for Chiles v. Salazar, determined that regulating a therapist’s speech can run afoul of constitutional protections. The case looked at Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors which attempts to change sexual orientation or gender identity.
Soon after the ruling Cincinnati city leaders asked the city’s legal department to look at Cincinnati’s prohibition against conversion therapy, which has been in place since 2015.
WVXU’s Cincinnati Edition invited Cincinnati City Councilmember Jeff Cramerding; Jack Greiner, Partner, Faruki PLL; and Ryan Thoreson, associate professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law to discuss the issue.
Thoreson’s scholarship at UC Law covers the legal and social regulation of gender and sexuality and spans constitutional law, comparative and international law, and human rights law.
Listen to the Cincinnati Edition segment online.
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