Colorado Lawmakers Shift Strategy Push New Conversion Therapy Bill After Supreme Court Ruling

By Lucas Brady Woods | The Colorado Sun

Dylan Scholinski creates their art in a creaky, old building in north Denver. A large studio space is packed with their work from over the years, including a set of mixed-media illustrations depicting dark, contorted figures.

“This is like a hallway of the institution with the rooms, the room doors,” Scholinski said, flipping through several of them.

The illustrations are based on Scholinski’s experience in psychiatric institutions as a teenager, where they underwent conversion therapy, a controversial practice meant to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

“There’s a part of me that still holds on to that idea that I’m not enough, I’m not lovable,” they said. “I’ve spent my whole life trying to prove that I am worthy.”

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