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On 10/6/2025 7:51 AM, Rudy Canoza wrote:

By Melody Gutierrez and Daniel Miller
Oct. 5, 2025 Updated 10:11 PM PT

Hours after California Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed to seek a court order
to stop President Trump from deploying 300 of the state|ore4raos National
Guard troops in Oregon, a federal judge issued a temporary
restraining order on Sunday night.

Meanwhile in matters that mean something.

Matt Salmon remembers getting into a circle with the other teenagers in
his group therapy session and shouting obscenities at a gay boy forced
to stand in the middle.

And he recalls being made to sit on the floor and hug other men because,
his therapist said, his sexuality was driven by a rCLvoidrCY that needed to
be filled with rCLhealthy male intimacy.rCY

Nearly 20 years later, Salmon is still shaken by his late teenage
experience with rCLconversion therapy,rCY the discredited practice that purports to rCLconvertrCY gay people to heterosexuality and is the focus of
a blockbuster appeal to be argued before the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

rCLI remember watching these boys as theyrCOre essentially being
retraumatized and just broken down,rCY Salmon recalled in an interview
with CNN. rCLIrCOve done a lot of healing, but those wounds are still very
much present.rCY

Days after returning to Washington following its summer break, the
Supreme Court will turn its attention to a six-year-old Colorado law
that prohibits licensed counselors in the state from practicing
conversion therapy on minors rCo one of a series of cases the 6-3
conservative court has heard, or soon will, that deal with gay and
transgender young people.

Salmon is one of several victims of the practice who have submitted
briefs at the Supreme Court supporting Colorado.

Just a few months ago, the Supreme Court let stand a Tennessee law that
bans puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors seeking to
transition to match their gender identity. Early next year, it will hear arguments over whether states may ban transgender student athletes from
playing on teams that align with their gender identity.

The high-profile cases are landing at a moment of political backlash for transgender Americans, driven in part by President Donald TrumprCOs second administration. They are also a product of blue- and red-state laws
enacted in response to an increase in youth who identify as transgender.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/politics/supreme-court-chiles-conversion-t herapy-colorado
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