This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, aColorado case that may well impact the viability of “conversion therapy”bans. Conversion therapy is a dangerous practice that relies on the idea thata person’s sexual orientation or gender identity can and should be changedthrough a form of counseling. All major medical associations, including the American PsychologicalAssociation, consider the practice as tantamount to abuse. More than 20states, including Colorado, have enacted statewide bans on the practice.Though bills have been introduced in successive legislative sessions here inTexas, a similar effort has consistently failed to progress out of the TexasHouse. Now, a test case that seeks to overturn bans on this horrific practice hasbeen sent to the Supreme Court. If the questions asked by justices areanything to go by, we may have reason to worry. The heart of Chiles v. Salazar is whether states can prohibit licensedtherapists from offering conversion therapy to