Conversion therapy won big at the Supreme Court at the end of March, with SCOTUS ruling 8-1 that Colorado's ban on talk conversion therapy likely violated the First Amendment. While it wasn't an outright overturning of Colorado's laws, it put state governments and lower courts on notice.
That, of course, doesn't stop the Democrats. I've noticed that when Democrats go to court and win, those judicial rulings are issued as nationwide injunctions, but when Democrats lose, the ruling applies only to a narrow jurisdiction (if any). Democrats then turn around and attempt to circumvent the courts by forcing through legislation that was just ruled unconstitutional.
This is what's happening in California, where Democrats, led by State Senator Scott Wiener, have a "backup plan" to neuter the SCOTUS ruling. That plan is SB934, which would allow people to sue therapists for malpractice.
Wiener had seen the writing on the wall.
The San Francisco Democrat, who previously worked as a deputy city attorney, said he’d been paying attention to the Supreme Court’s increasingly elastic interpretation of the First Amendment — from its 2010 Citizens United ruling that equated corporations to people and money to speech, to a 2017 one holding that a Colorado baker’s religious beliefs meant they could refuse filling a wedding cake order from a gay couple.
So when the high court last year took up the case of Kaley Chiles, a Christian counselor challenging Colorado’s law against using therapy to convince gay kids that they’re straight, Wiener said he invited a coalition of LGBTQ civil rights groups to plan for a future without California’s landmark conversion therapy ban.
“Once the oral argument happened last fall, it was clear to us that this law was very much at risk,” he said.
SB934 would significantly extend the window someone has to bring a malpractice suit against a conversion therapy provider from three years to potentially three decades, giving children who were harmed by a conversion therapist until they’re 40. It would also bolster such claims by allowing expert testimony that reflects the scientific consensus about the harms of sexual orientation change therapy.
As I, and others, have pointed out, Democrats have fully — and enthusiastically — embraced "gender-affirming" care, which is the most radical form of conversion therapy.
Despite this, Democrats like Wiener keep pushing it, and they need to know exactly what they're supporting. Jonni Skinner was an effeminate gay boy, but instead of being treated for his mental health concerns, he was simply told he was born in the wrong body and pushed to transition to female. Officials threatened to terminate his mother's custody when she asked too many questions, and they told her that Skinner would commit suicide if he didn't turn into a girl. When the complications of "gender-affirming care" became too much to bear, Skinner's doctor stopped talking to him.
Skinner confronted Wiener and the California Demcorats, though, about the harm "gender-affirming care" did to him.
“I'm a 23 year-old gay man who's never had an orgasm.”
— WomenAreReal (@WomenAreReals) April 8, 2026
Sen. Wiener, a leading advocate for sex rejection procedures, comes face to face w/the human cost.
I’ve never seen him squirm like this.
It took immense courage for @JonniSkinner to be public about this issue. 🙏 ❤️🩹 pic.twitter.com/bM1zo2na3a
Incredibly powerful stuff. And good. Wiener deserves to be made uncomfortable by the harsh realities of what he supports.
"The result is I'm a 23-year old gay man who's never had an orgasm and may never experience one. Let that sink in."
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) April 7, 2026
Jonni Skinner tells the California legislature's judiciary committee how he was puberty blocked, dosed with estrogen and rendered anorgasmic as a minor by gender… pic.twitter.com/PhuanejirX
Here's Skinner's full remarks:
When I was young, I was a feminine child, and I discovered trans influencers online. They said: 'Change your body and your life gets better. Don't and it gets worse.'
Or, as my doctors told my mom, I would commit suicide.
The medical and mental health providers didn't bother to ask why I felt the way I did. They poisoned my body with blockers and hormones, arresting my puberty and messing with my development. The result is I'm a 23-year-old gay man who's never had an orgasm and may never experience one. Let that sink in.
I was rendered anorgasmic because once you say you could be trans, that's a full stop -- no exploration as to why is allowed, even if you are struggling.
The former president of WPATH, Dr Marcy Bowers, the California surgeon who had performed the surgery for Jazz Jennings at 17, admitted on video that puberty blockers, followed by cross sex hormones, results in no orgasms and stunted genitals. SB, 934 guarantees that more people will end up like me, the walking but wounded.
I could have been spared all of this, if any of my therapists would have explored why I felt dysphoric. But they never did. They only led me to hate my body more.
The Supreme Court just ruled in a rare bipartisan decision that laws like this are unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination. This bill is an attempted workaround that will be used to silence therapists who could have helped me avoid the irreversible harms to my body and the loss of my sexual function as is the same for many others. So today, I ask you to extend some empathy to survivors like me and vote no for this bill.
Will this matter to Wiener and California Democrats? I doubt it. They authored legislation that guaranteed young girls in the foster system were all but guaranteed to be sex trafficked, first by barring Christians from being foster parents (to appease the trans activists, of course), and then by tying the hands of law enforcement to remove these girls from the streets.
They remove children like Skinner from parental custody if those parents don't "affirm" a gender transition, too.
But we do not have to convince the Democrats. They are unreasonable ideologues who will sacrifice anyone and everyone on the altar of their agenda.
We have to show the rest of the world what a monstrosity "gender-affirming care" is and keep pushing until legislators like Wiener can no longer harm our children.
