A federal judge throws out lawsuit challenging Maryland’s ban on treating minors with conversion therapy
Gannam said plaintiffs’ attorneys disagree with the judge’s analysis of the case and the standard that she applied in evaluating their First Amendment arguments.
“The mistake is treating the speech of professionals like Mr. Doyle differently from other constitutionally protected speech,” he said. Doyle also argued that the ban violated and his clients’ First Amendment right to receive information. However, Chasanow ruled in August that Doyle couldn’t bring claims on his clients’ behalf.
Doyle’s lawsuit, filed in January, named Hogan and state Attorney General Brian Frosh, a Democrat, as defendants. Raquel Coombs, a spokeswoman for Frosh’s office said, conversion therapy ““Advocates of this type of therapy are selling something that doesn’t make people’s lives better, rather, as the court agreed, is actually harmful to minors,” Coombs said in a statement.
Doyle is a mental health therapist at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia, and is executive director of the Institute for Healthy Families in the Washington, D.C., area.
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