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Radical Colorado ‘Transgender’ Bill Threatens Parents’ Rights and Free Speech

A radical bill in Colorado, under the guise of providing “legal protections for transgender individuals,” is being rushed through the General Assembly by activist legislators. They are the same ones who call opponents of the bill “hate groups,” equating them with the KKK, and said such group echo “hateful rhetoric … against the trans community.” 

While supporters claimed the bill is about “civil rights,” it directly threatens parent-child relationships, schools and businesses. The proposed legislation unconstitutionally limits free speech, religious freedom, and parents’ rights to provide for the care, nurturing, and moral and religious upbringing of their children.

Real civil rights don’t take away rights from others.

HB 1312, “Concerning Legal Protections for Transgender Individuals,” actually gives special rights to those with a psychiatric condition listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5-TR), as “gender dysphoria.”

The bill was introduced late in the day on Friday, March 28. On Monday a committee hearing was scheduled for the next day, April 2, giving opponents little time to rally opposition. While more than 100 people testified against the legislation, the vote passed out of committee with a 7-4 vote along party lines.

The legislation seeks to force parents, schools and businesses to kowtow to false and harmful transgender ideology.

One of those who rallied the troops against the bill was Erin Lee, who began exposing the gender cult in Colorado schools after a middle school encouraged her daughter to embrace sexual identity confusion.

Typically, Colorado legislators talk about proposed measures with stakeholders – those who have an interest in the legislation. Witnesses testified the bill had “been worked on for over a year,” but state Representative Jarvis Caldwell said he had just learned about the legislation on Monday, April 1.

Jarvis asked if other stakeholders, “like parent groups that are not a part of the LGBT community,” were consulted.

Representative Yara Zokaie, a former community organizer, responded with contempt for conservatives and Christians, saying:

“A well stakeholdered [sic] bill does not need to be discussed with hate groups. And we don’t ask someone passing civil rights legislation to go ask the KKK their opinion.”

Representative Javier Mabrey concurred, saying, “But I agree, there’s no reason to go to the table with people who are echoing the hateful rhetoric going around about the trans community.”

So only transgender activists and ideologues were consulted about the bill.

Here are explanations of several sections of HB 1312, which is really eight bills rolled into one, noting how different provisions negatively affect basic constitutional rights.

Section 2: When a parent is involved in a custody case before a court, and their child insists he or she is a different “gender” or sex, the bill declares that it is “coercive control” – child abuse – if the parent does not affirm the child’s mental, psychological and emotional confusion. The measure’s summary of this section says:

When making child custody decisions and determining the best interests of a child for purposes of parenting time, a court shall consider deadnaming, misgendering, or threatening to publish material related to an individual’s gender-affirming health-care services as types of coercive control.

A court shall consider reports of coercive control when determining the allocation of parental responsibilities in accordance with the best interests of the child.

According to HB 1312:

“Deadname” means to purposefully, and with the intent to disregard the individual’s gender identity or gender expression, refer to an individual by their birth name rather than their chosen name. …

“Misgender” means to purposefully, and with the intent to disregard the individual’s gender identity or gender expression, refer to an individual using an honorific or pronoun that conflicts with the individual’s gender identity or gender expression.

Parents, who knew their child’s sex from birth and named their child, are forced to use the new name and pronouns chosen by their child.

The bill violates parental rights and infringes on their First Amendment rights to free speech and religious liberty.

Section 3: HB 1312 prohibits Colorado courts with complying with “another state’s law that authorizes a state agency to remove a child from the child’s parent or guardian because the parent or guardian allowed the child to receive gender-affirming health-care services.”

In other words, Colorado will now be a destination state for a parent who wants to harm his or her child with irreversible, body-damaging drugs, hormones and surgeries. Colorado courts may not cooperate with the parent’s home state – even if that state has taken custody away from that parent.

Sections 4, 5 and 6: Public schools with dress codes “must not create or enforce any rules based on gender and must allow each student to abide by any variation of the dress code,” the bill’s summary states. Schools must also allow students to change their names from their given, legal name. The new law applies to charter schools.

Finally, Sections 8 and 9 add “deadnaming” and “misgendering” to the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, “prohibiting these discriminatory acts in places of public accommodation.”

The bill forces people to support false and damaging gender ideology. It requires employees and businesses to agree that it is possible to change one’s sex, violating the religious freedom of many.

All of Colorado must now “collaborate with a mental disorder,” as Psychiatrist Paul McHugh wrote.

HB 25-1312, “Legal Protections for Transgender Individuals,” is likely to pass the full House. One it has been assigned to a Senate committee, concerned citizens may learn about how to participate in Colorado’s legislative process and sign up to testify.

Related Articles and Resources

Erin Lee tells the story of fighting gender ideology in her daughter’s school.  

American College of Pediatricians: No Benefits From ‘Gender-Affirming’ Interventions

Are Sex and Gender Different Things?

Mom Files Lawsuit Against School District for ‘Transitioning’ Daughter Without Her Consent

A Singularly Christian View of the Transgender Problem

‘Trust the Science’ About ‘Gender-Affirming Care.’ What Science?

What Are Male and Female in God’s Story?

Why a Trans Woman is a Not a Woman

‘The WPATH Files’ Exposes ‘Surgical and Hormonal Experiments on Children’

The WPATH Files – Transgender Interventions Are ‘Unethical Medical Experiments’

Colorado Pro-Abortion Politician: Abortion is Cheaper for the State

Earlier this week, the speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives gave testimony in support of public tax dollars going to fund abortion.

She then admits it’s cheaper for the state to pay for abortions than pay for a baby to be born.

Don’t believe it? Listen for yourself.

Colorado abortion activists are so brazen, they have no problem saying the quiet part out loud.

In the video, the pro-abortion lawmaker explains,

Ultimately, the state will see a cost savings. A birth is more expensive than an abortion.

The “savings” comes from “averted births” because “the abortions happen instead.”

If your instinctual response to that argument is to recoil in shock and disgust, good – that means you have an intact conscience.

If the same “cost savings” argument were applied to the disabled or to those that suffer from chronic medical conditions, there would be an uproar – and rightly so.

It’s a dehumanizing argument meant to justify the death of an entire segment of the human population based on the idea that it would be cheaper if we didn’t have to care for them at all.

Jim Daly, President of Focus on the Family, told the Daily Citizen,

As Christians, we know that every human being is made in the image of God with intrinsic value and worth, and that distinction begins in the womb. To suggest that abortion is acceptable because it saves the state of Colorado money is dystopian and morally objectionable on every level. If we ever hope to attain a more civil society, we must start by respecting human life at all stages of development. Children are not a burden on society – they are a blessing.

The Colorado bill, SB 25-183, would require the state to cover abortion as part of its Medicaid services.

The measure was approved by the state Senate and has already passed the House Health and Human Services Committee. It’s now on its way to the House floor where it is expected to have more than enough votes to pass.

Last fall, Colorado voters approved an amendment enshrining abortion in the state Constitution and repealing the ban on taxpayer funded abortions.

Now that the ban has been removed and abortion is considered a constitutionally protected “right” under state law, the abortion-supporting majority in Colorado’s state House and Senate are enthusiastically doing everything they can to ensure Colorado taxpayers pay for abortions.

When this bill becomes law, as is expected, Colorado taxpayers will be forced to spend millions of their dollars every year funding abortions against their conscience.

The measure’s fiscal note estimates, “In the first full implementation year (FY 2026-27), costs for abortion services are estimated to be $5.9 million, while cost savings for averted births are estimated to be $6.4 million.”

It’s no surprise the abortion lobby is advocating for this bill and taxpayer funded abortions. For abortion sellers, it’s always about the bottom line. They sell abortions for a living. What’s more secure than a steady stream of funding from Colorado taxpayers?

The video above, exposing the radical views of Colorado abortion activists, has already received over 120,000 views on X and its reach continues to grow.

Please share this article and video within your circle of influence.

Let’s work together to expose big abortion and hold them accountable for their shameful beliefs that discriminate against low-income women and their babies.

Colorado: Vote NO on Amendment 79

This fall, Colorado voters will decide whether to create an unrestricted “right” to abortion in the Colorado state constitution.

Focus on the Family is urging all our friends in Colorado to protect life this November and vote “NO” on Amendment 79.

Amendment 79 would amend the Colorado Constitution to:

“Recognize the right to abortion … and prohibit the state and local governments from denying, impeding, or discriminating against the exercise of that right, allowing abortion to be a covered service under health insurance plans.”

Amendment 79 is radical and extreme. It would:

  • Ban parental notice before a minor gets an abortion.
  • Allow abortions in the seventh, eighth and ninth months of pregnancy on healthy mothers and healthy babies.
  • Ban any reasonable limits on abortion in the future — like safety laws for women.
  • Force taxpayers to pay for abortions.

Focus on the Family strongly opposes this dangerous amendment.

Right to Know Colorado, the campaign to defeat Amendment 79, created this advertisement now targeting voters in Colorado:

If this amendment becomes law, Colorado’s reputation as a late-term abortion destination will continue to grow and Colorado taxpayers will be forced to foot the bill.

The abortion lobby has already raised over $8 million to pass Amendment 79.

To date, the abortion industry has a 100% success record in advancing abortion policy and defeating pro-life policy through ballot measures.

The initiative needs at least 55% of the vote to become law.

Pro-life Coloradans must vote to defeat this extreme measure. This campaign will be decided by the people who show up to vote.

Exit polling in the Ohio abortion amendment campaign of 2023, demonstrated that 24% of white evangelical or born-again Christians supported the extreme abortion amendment. It is imperative that bible-believing, pro-life Christians vote to protect preborn babies and mothers from abortion in Colorado.

Right to Know Colorado says:

“Coloradans have a Right to Know how Amendment 79 hurts themselves and their loved ones. This amendment creates a constitutional ‘right’ to unrestricted abortion and allows for taxpayer-funded abortion by repealing the constitutional ban on public funding.”

This fall, vote “NO” on Amendment 79 to protect preborn babies, parental rights and taxpayers.

You can learn more about the “Right to Know CO” campaign and contribute to the effort to defeat Amendment 79.

Right to Know CO also has accounts on Facebook and Instagram that you can like, follow, and share with your friends.

Colorado’s ballots were mailed October 11. Election Day is November 5.

Please vote to protect preborn life by voting “NO” on Amendment 79. And remember to vote for candidates who support life this November!

Image credit: Right to Know CO‘s YouTube page.