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Christian Counselor Asks Supreme Court to Invalidate Law Forbidding Talk Against Gender Transitions

Christian Counselor Asks Supreme Court to Invalidate Law Forbidding Talk Against Gender Transitions
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, left, speaks as Gov. Jay Inslee looks on during a news conference where Ferguson announced a lawsuit against agrochemical giant Monsanto over pollution from PCBs, on Dec. 8, 2016, in Seattle, Washington.
Matthew Vadum
Matthew Vadum
3/29/2023|Updated: 3/30/2023
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A licensed marriage and family counselor is asking the Supreme Court to strike down a Washington state law that prohibits counseling against gender transitions.

Counselor Brian Tingley, who is a practicing Christian, says the state’s counseling censorship law violates his freedom of speech and infringes on his religious faith and that of his clients by prohibiting certain private client-counselor conversations regarding sexual orientation and gender identity that are disfavored by the state government, while allowing and encouraging conversations the government favors.

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