On March 31, 2026, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Colorado Conversion Therapy Law – which prohibited counselors from telling children the truth about toxic Trans Drugs was unconstitutional. This ruling should overturned Bob Ferguson’s ruling in Tingley v Ferguson – which is an identical and equally despicable law here in Washington state that has severely harmed the mental health of thousands of children during the past 8 years. In addition, professional child counselors, who typically spend years taking graduate level courses on child development and brain development, have been treated very badly by the idiots currently running Olympia – and these counselors who have devoted their lives to helping children deserve an apology.
Will Criminals like Ferguson and Reykdal say they are sorry and agree to comply with the US Constitution?
Sadly, we at the Washington Parents Network believe that the insane and corrupt leaders of Washington state will simply ignore this important Supreme Court ruling and continue to prohibit child counselors from telling kids the truth about toxic Trans Drugs. Instead, they will simply add this ruling as one more of their now many violations of the US Constitution.
Just a few weeks ago, on March 2, 2026, the US Supreme Court issued an 18 page ruling in the California Parents rights case called Maribelli v Bonta. The Supreme Court condemned the policy of keeping major medical decisions like a child attempting to change their gender hidden from the child’s parents. Sadly, the anti-parent leaders of Washington state refused to comply with that court order or related parents rights laws such as FERPA. In addition to failing to comply with Maribelli v Bonta, Washington’s arrogant and insane leaders have failed to comply with Tennessee v Cardona (Title IX enforcement ruling) and Students V Harvard (Title VI Equal Rights ruling). Once one federal law is being broken, why not just break them all?
We believe that Washington’s Trans Drug Cult leaders will not comply with either the US Constitution or the Supreme Court until they are threatened with the loss of billions of dollars in federal funds due to their many failures to comply with federal laws. We at the Washington Parents Network have filed several parents rights complaints with the US Department of Justice asking for just such a remedy. And we will continue to file complaints until the rights of Parents and Families are finally restored in our state.
Background
Since 2018, Washington has banned counselors from speaking with gender confused children about the underlying causes of their gender confusion. As insane as it sounds, Senate Bill 5722 required licensed counselors in Washington to promote state-sponsored child abuse of giving gender confused children toxic Trans drugs – instead of providing kids with the counseling they really needed to deal with their emotional problems.
This crazy law was an attack on our free speech rights under the First Amendment. It was also an attack on the scientific method as science requires the ability to consider all points of view – and not be limited to only the official dogma. Finally, this Ferguson Trans Drug Cult law was an attack on at-risk children – because it forces children to go down a deadly drug path and prevents them from having access to counseling that might help them overcome their mental health problems.
For the past eight years, Bob Ferguson and his accomplices in the Teachers Union and the legacy media have been telling several Big Lies – including his claim that a federal law called Title IX requires us to allow boys in the girls bathroom and allow boys to compete in girls sports. The driving force behind this law is not a concern for Trangender children but the extreme greed of the drug industry that is making billions of dollars in profits by getting vulnerable children addicted to toxic Trans drugs.
Thankfully, on March 31, 2026, the Supreme Court finally exposed these lies. In a case called Chiles v. Salazar, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that laws restricting the free speech rights of counselors unconstitutionally violates the First Amendment. Here are some quotes from the 2026 March 31 US Supreme Court 66 page ruling in Chiles v Salazar:
“The First Amendment protects the inalienable right of every individual to decide for himself “how best to speak.” The First Amendment protects the right of all to speak their minds… The First Amendment stands as a bulwark against any effort to prescribe an orthodoxy of views, reflecting a belief that each American enjoys an inalienable right to speak his mind and a faith in the free marketplace of ideas as the best means for finding truth. Laws like Colorado’s, which suppress speech based on viewpoint, represent an egregious assault on both commitment...”
“When the government seeks not just to restrict speech based on its subject matter, but also seeks to dictate what particular “opinion or perspective” individuals may express on that subject, “the violation of the First Amendment is all the more blatant.”
“Colorado’s law does not just regulate the content of Ms. Chiles’s speech. It goes a step further, prescribing what views she may and may not express. The Constitution does not protect the right of some to speak freely; it protects the right of all. It safeguards not only popular ideas; it secures, even and especially, the right to voice dissenting views.”
Here is a list of facts about the Trans Drug Cult which we intend to establish here in Washington state based on this Supreme Court ruling:
1. On March 31, 2026, the US Supreme Court, in the case of Chilies v Salazar, issued a 66 page Opinion declaring that the Colorado Conversion Therapy Law – which prohibited licensed counselors from providing talk therapy to children if that talk therapy does not “affirm” the child’s interest in changing their gender – violated the First Amendment Right of licensed counselors to use “talk” therapy to investigate a child’s individual mental and emotional health problems and help the child in the manner that the counselor and the child’s parents feel is most likely to help the child.
2. On page 27 of their opinion, the Supreme Court stated that: “the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country. It reflects instead a judgment that every American possesses an inalienable right to think and speak freely, and a faith in the free marketplace of ideas as the best means for discovering truth... any law that suppresses speech based on viewpoint represents an “egregious” assault on both of those commitments.”
3. While the US Supreme Court order in Chiles v Salazar applies to the Colorado Revised Statutes §12–245–202(3.5), §12–245–224(1)(t)(V) and §12–245–226(1)(a)(II)(B), passed by the Colorado legislature in 2019, Washington State has nearly identical laws restricting the Freedom of Speech of Child Counselors, RCW 18.130.020 and 18.130.180, which were passed by the Washington state legislature in 2018 Senate Bill 5722.
4. The purpose of our proposed Consent Decree is to bring Washington state Child Counseling laws into alignment with the Supreme Court ruling in Chiles v Salazar and thereby protect the First Amendment right of child counselors in Washington State to provide talk therapy without the risk of being fined or losing their license. In addition, this consent decree will restore the right of parents in our state to seek out counseling which will in the opinion of the parent provide the greatest assistance to their child.
5. In 2018, the Washington state legislature approved Senate Bill 5722 which amended RCW 18.130.020 and 18.130.180 and was intended to prohibit the use of “Conversion therapy” but falsely claimed that any “talk” therapy which did not affirm the gender identity of the child was “Conversion therapy“ and thus could result in the Counselor losing their license and being fined up to $5,000.
6. In fact, the term “Conversion therapy” as used in RCW 18.130.020 and 18.130.180 actually referred to unscientific scams, such as using electric shocks or nausea inducing drugs, or other extreme coercive practices in an attempt to alter a person’s beliefs or behaviors. The term did not and does not include common scientifically supported and evidence based talk therapies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) which helps a client achieve their personal goals and/or improve their coping skills. Nor does the term include Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) which helps a client understand and improve their relationships with others. Nor does the term include Attachment Based Therapy (ABT) which focuses on building secure trusting relationships. Nor does the term include or apply to any other scientifically supported and evidence based counseling program.
7. Each child is unique and each family is unique. Any State law which attempts to lump all children and or all families into a “one size fits all” model is likely to result in severe harm to children and their families.
8. Absent a court conviction of child abuse, parents have an inalienable right to guide the upbringing of their children and are in the best position to determine the best therapy for their children.
9. Certified Child Counselors, who typically undergo years of training in child development, child counseling and family dynamics, and who typically spend a significant amount of time investigating the potential mental and emotional health problems of a given child, are in a better position to provide parents and children with counseling options that are most likely to result in a positive outcome for the child and the family than government officials who have had no training in either child development or child counseling.
10. Elected Washington state officials, including the Governor, the Attorney General and the Superintendent of Public Instruction have a duty and responsibility to conduct scientific research before making false claims to the public. For example, elected Washington state officials have falsely claimed that gender confusion is a genetic problem. There is not a single credible scientific study that supports this claim. Instead, genetic studies of hundreds of gender confused children have found that their genetic profiles are identical to children who do not suffer from gender confusion. In addition, there are literally dozens of credible scientific studies that support the conclusion that gender confusion is a mental health and emotional health problem related to childhood adverse events, insecure child attachment, anxiety, depression, stress and other related emotional and mental health problems – all of which are best diagnosed and treated by licensed child counselors.
11. Elected Washington state officials have also falsely claimed that “gender affirming” therapy reduces the suicide rate of gender confused children. This claim is not supported by any credible scientific study. Instead, there are now many scientific studies that have found that “gender affirming” therapy increases the suicide rate in gender confused children. Meanwhile, numerous other scientifically supported child counseling methods, including CBT, IPT and ABT, have been proven to reduce both the short term and long term suicide rate and improve the mental health of gender confused children.
12. Elected Washington state officials have also ignored numerous scientific studies showing that “gender affirmation” typically results in children taking toxic drugs such as puberty blockers and cross sex hormones – drugs that not FDA approved for use with gender confused children and drugs that are known to result in obesity, cancer, heart attacks, brain tumors and sterility.
As just one example, a recent Finnish long term study of 2,083 gender confused children confirms that those who received 2 or more years of so-called “gender affirming” care, fared WORSE mentally than those in the control group who did not. Gender affirming care led to a 50% to 60% increase in severe mental health problems.
Here is a quote from this study:
“When prior psychiatric morbidity was controlled for, the gender-referred adolescents had a 5- to 6-fold increased need for specialist-level psychiatric treatment two years or more after the index date compared to the male controls, and 3- to 4-fold greater risk compared to the female controls, regardless of the desired direction of change and GR status. This result does not support the claim of a suggested improvement in mental health after medical GR initiated during developmental year.”
In plain English, so-called Gender Affirming therapy increases mental health problems rather than lessening mental health problems. This so-called treatment is nothing more than a scam to get kids addicted to toxic Trans drugs. Parents of gender confused children have a right to know these crucial facts before submitting their child to the barbaric and discredited practice of gender affirmation.
13. Threats and false allegations made against well-meaning and highly trained child counselors by Washington state elected officials, beginning with the passage of Senate Bill 5722 in 2018 by falsely accusing child counselors of engaging in “conversion therapy” have severely harmed counselors, parents and their children.
14. As an initial remedy to immediately address this harm, elected Washington state officials, including the Governor, the Attorney General and the Superintendent of Public Instruction will hereby notify their staff and the public that Washington state will hereafter interpret RCW 18.130.020 and 18.130.180 in a manner which is consistent with the 2026 US Supreme Court Ruling in Chiles v Salazar and thereby protect the First Amendment right of child counselors in Washington State to provide talk therapy without the risk of being fined or losing their license.
Conclusion… We must continue the fight for Parents Rights
The recent Supreme Court rulings are not just a victory for the rights of counselors to speak the truth and the rights of parents to be told the truth, but also a victory for anyone who believes in our First Amendment Rights to Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion.
Sadly, those of us living in Washington state must continue to contend with crazy leaders who do not support these First Amendment Rights. This is why we at the Washington Parents Network will continue to expose their crimes and work toward the day when parents rights and family rights are restored in our State. If you would like to join our email list or our monthly meetings, or if you have any other questions, feel free to email me.
Regards,
David Spring