When government censors science and medicine, patients pay the price. And censorship is frighteningly widespread today, from a humble counseling office to the upper reaches of the scientific establishment. That problem is at the heart of Chiles v. Salazar, a pivotal case that the U.S. Supreme Court agreed on March 10 to take up.
Kaley Chiles is a licensed therapist in Colorado with a mission to help troubled young people. Some clients want professional help as they try to recover comfort with the body and the sex they were born with. Even Chase Strangio, the lead ACLU advocate for childhood gender transitions, admitted to Justice Samuel Alito during December’s argument in United States v. Skrmetti that people’s understanding of their gender “shifts.” And, in the same hearing, the solicitor general of the United States noted to Justice Brett Kavanaugh that “some people might detransition or regret this care.”
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