Kristen Waggoner(@KristenWaggoner):The Chiles v. Salazar ripple effect continues! Today the 8th Circuit reversed a lower court’s ruling against two counselors from Kansas City, MO. Wyatt Bury and Pamela Eisenrich challenged two local ordinances that allowed counselors to encourage kids toward “gender transition,” while banning voluntary conversations meant to help kids accept their bodies. This is precisely the kind of viewpoint discrimination the Supreme Court found to be unconstitutional in Chiles. The lower court will now reexamine the case in light of that Chiles ruling. The era when struggling kids and families were barred from commonsense counseling is—we pray

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The Chiles v. Salazar ripple effect continues! Today the 8th Circuit reversed a lower court’s ruling against two counselors from Kansas City, MO. Wyatt Bury and Pamela Eisenrich challenged two local ordinances that allowed counselors to encourage kids toward “gender transition,” while banning voluntary conversations meant to help kids accept their bodies. This is precisely the kind of viewpoint discrimination the Supreme Court found to be unconstitutional in Chiles. The lower court will now reexamine the case in light of that Chiles ruling. The era when struggling kids and families were barred from commonsense counseling is—we pray—coming to an end.