The ADF’s hypocrisy here is mind-blowing. They’re up to their necks in efforts all over the United States to ban gender-affirming therapy, to insist that parents and doctors should not have the freedom to follow best-practice standards of medical care.

Trans-affirming clinicians are actually raising their own First Amendment arguments, which the ADF have argued against.

Unlike with trans-affirming healthcare, however, all legitimate medical and mental health organizations call conversion therapy ineffective and dangerous. They note strong links to mental health problems including suicide ideation and attempts.

That’s why lawmaking bodies are banning the practice. They’re actually just agreeing with the experts who have formed a consensus over the past century.

Like other professionals, therapists don’t enjoy unlimited freedom of speech when they offer commercial services to the public. They’re subject to regulation to protect the public from harmful professional practices.

So, we have the ADF arguing that gender-affirming therapists should not enjoy first amendment protection for their speech, but conversion therapists should.

Their hypocrisy makes one thing exceedingly clear: they don’t care about Constitutional principles; they’re just trying to impose a conservative agenda on society.