Shannon Minter on ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ruling, Alex Frandsen on Local News Day

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The episode discusses the Supreme Court ruling on conversion therapy and the importance of local news.

  https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260403.mp3 Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”).   USA Today ( 4/1/26 ) This week on CounterSpin : In Chiles vs. Salazar , the Supreme Court ruled that Colorado’s law prohibiting health practitioners from employing the widely discredited practice of trying to “convert” young people from their sexual orientation or gender identity violates healthcare workers’ First Amendment rights. We’ll hear about what the ruling does and doesn’t do, and how news media might better explain it, from Shannon Minter, legal director at the National Center for LGBTQ Rights . https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin260403Minter.mp3   Local News Day Also on the show: April 9 is Local News Day , a new project aimed at lifting up the value of truly local news outlets in an increasingly consolidated media landscape. Alex Frandsen helps lead a group, the Media Power Collaborative , that’s looking to forge a way forward that draws on the particular value of local news, to communities and those representing them, and that doesn’t…

People in this episode

Guests: Shannon Minter, Alex Frandsen

Topics covered

• conversion therapy
• Supreme Court ruling
• LGBTQ rights
• local news
• media consolidation
• First Amendment

Keywords

• conversion therapy
• Supreme Court
• LGBTQ rights
• local news
• media
• First Amendment
• Colorado
• Chiles vs. Salazar

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: National Center for LGBTQ Rights, Media Power Collaborative

Books & works: Chiles vs. Salazar

Places: Colorado

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