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Business Upturn
16-06-2025
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The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons files an Amicus Brief in the Supreme Court in Support of the Right to Conversion Therapy
TUCSON, Ariz., June 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) filed its amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on June 12 against a Colorado ban on conversion therapy for minors, in Chiles v. Salazar (No. 24-539). In this case, a therapist challenges the Colorado law, similar to bans in roughly half the states, that prevents her from counseling in support of a patient's gender, while allowing transgender conversion advice. Colorado and most blue states censor therapists from helping teenagers overcome gender dysphoria and same-sex attractions. But therapists are permitted to encourage transgender transitions and homosexuality, the brief states. 'This is a blatant content-based discrimination by government in violation of the First Amendment,' observes AAPS General Counsel Andrew Schlafly. 'Government cannot lawfully pick sides with viewpoint censorship.' At issue before the Supreme Court is not whether conversion therapy, which is better called gender support therapy, is beneficial to most people. Instead, the issue is whether there is a free-speech right of licensed counselors to provide such talk therapy to patients, the brief explains. 'Physicians, therapists, and other caregivers are professionals not to be censored and controlled. They must retain First Amendment freedom of speech rights after licensure which they properly enjoyed prior to licensure,' the brief argues. AAPS quotes Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in his dissent from a Court decision not to review a challenge to a similar Washington State law. Justice Thomas wrote in Tingley v. Ferguson (2023) that the State allows counseling of 'minors about gender dysphoria, but only if they convey the state-approved message of encouraging minors to explore their gender identities.' 'Expressing any other message is forbidden—even if the counselor's clients ask for help to accept their biological sex. That is viewpoint-based and content-based discrimination in its purest form,' Justice Thomas added. AAPS in its amicus brief urged the Court to invalidate Colorado's ban on conversion therapy. This would also negate similar laws in about half the country. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a national organization representing physicians in all specialties since 1943. Contact: Andrew Schlafly, (908) 719-8608, [email protected], or Jane M. Orient, M.D., (520) 323-3110, [email protected] Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with GlobeNewswire. Business Upturn takes no editorial responsibility for the same. Ahmedabad Plane Crash
Yahoo
16-06-2025
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- Yahoo
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons files an Amicus Brief in the Supreme Court in Support of the Right to Conversion Therapy
TUCSON, Ariz., June 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) filed its amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court on June 12 against a Colorado ban on conversion therapy for minors, in Chiles v. Salazar (No. 24-539). In this case, a therapist challenges the Colorado law, similar to bans in roughly half the states, that prevents her from counseling in support of a patient's gender, while allowing transgender conversion advice. Colorado and most blue states censor therapists from helping teenagers overcome gender dysphoria and same-sex attractions. But therapists are permitted to encourage transgender transitions and homosexuality, the brief states. 'This is a blatant content-based discrimination by government in violation of the First Amendment,' observes AAPS General Counsel Andrew Schlafly. 'Government cannot lawfully pick sides with viewpoint censorship.' At issue before the Supreme Court is not whether conversion therapy, which is better called gender support therapy, is beneficial to most people. Instead, the issue is whether there is a free-speech right of licensed counselors to provide such talk therapy to patients, the brief explains. 'Physicians, therapists, and other caregivers are professionals not to be censored and controlled. They must retain First Amendment freedom of speech rights after licensure which they properly enjoyed prior to licensure,' the brief argues. AAPS quotes Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in his dissent from a Court decision not to review a challenge to a similar Washington State law. Justice Thomas wrote in Tingley v. Ferguson (2023) that the State allows counseling of 'minors about gender dysphoria, but only if they convey the state-approved message of encouraging minors to explore their gender identities.' 'Expressing any other message is forbidden—even if the counselor's clients ask for help to accept their biological sex. That is viewpoint-based and content-based discrimination in its purest form,' Justice Thomas added. AAPS in its amicus brief urged the Court to invalidate Colorado's ban on conversion therapy. This would also negate similar laws in about half the country. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a national organization representing physicians in all specialties since 1943. Contact: Andrew Schlafly, (908) 719-8608, aschlafly@ or Jane M. Orient, M.D., (520) 323-3110, janeorientmd@ in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
02-06-2025
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The Worsening Pandemic of Gambling Highlighted in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
TUCSON, Ariz., June 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gambling addiction is worse than substance abuse in many ways, including suicide rates, writes Andrew Schlafly, Esq. in the summer issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. A Swedish study estimated that the rate of suicide is 15 times higher among gamblers than in the general population. Physical health problems result from gambling, including hypertension, cardiovascular disease, sleep difficulties, and peptic ulcer disease, Schlafly states. Pathological gambling has also been linked to frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Psychiatric harm includes the onset or worsening of major depressive episodes, anxiety or substance use disorders, and intense feelings of shame, rash decision-making, and deceptive conduct, he adds. Roughly half of Americans are engaged in gambling now, he estimates. In 2023, $49 billion was spent on table games and slot machines. Extreme addiction to gambling afflicts about 5 percent of the population, and the rate is higher for young adults. Relatively few—typically less than 10 percent—of addicted gamblers ever seek help to overcome their habit, he reports. 'It is no longer necessary to travel to a casino to lose one's life savings,' he writes. Gambling as tailored by artificial intelligence (AI) to individual weaknesses is invading the cell phones of everyone, including teenagers particularly vulnerable to this addiction, he warns. Since the 2018 Supreme Court decision in Murphy v. NCAA, 39 states have legalized sports gambling. By 2021, $57.2 billion was wagered annually on sporting events alone. Today, hundreds of suspicious sports performances annually have been correlated with unusual betting activity, Schlafly states. Gambling may become even more prevalent as a clever new way around state regulation of gambling percolates through the courts: a way to bet on event contracts, which is federally regulated in a very permissive way by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). This includes betting on elections outcomes, which could rope in many more people, and make more corruption inevitable. The Major Questions Doctrine is a legal mechanism that conceivably could help limit the spread of this madness, Schlafly suggests. The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons is published by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a national organization representing physicians in all specialties since 1943. Contact: Andrew Schlafly, (908) 719-8608, Aschlafly@ or Jane M. Orient, M.D., (520) 323-3110, janeorientmd@
