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

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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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