A discredited therapy for gay and trans youth is at the center of a Supreme Court case. Here’s what to know

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will turn its attention to a Colorado law that prohibits licensed counselors in the state from practicing conversion therapy on minors. Allison Bailey/NURPHO/Associated Press/File

The US Supreme Court will hear a case Tuesday that will determine whether a Colorado law that prohibits licensed mental health professionals from providing conversion “therapy” to minors is constitutional.

Conversion or reparative therapy promises to “convert” people from being gay, lesbian or bisexual to straight, or to change transgender and nonconforming individuals into people who identify with the sex they were labeled at birth. Research has found that the practice doesn’t work and can even be dangerous: It significantly increases a person’s risk of suicide and can cau