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Colorado Bill Would Force Parents to Accept Child’s New ‘Gender Identity’

The Colorado General Assembly is threatening parent’s rights if they oppose “transitioning” their child to a new “identity.”

In cases where parents divorce or separate, Senate Bill 26-018 mandates that courts take into consideration whether or not a parent supports a child’s “identity as it relates to a protected class” when “determining parenting time and allocation of decision-making responsibility.” 

The bill references a Colorado law that includes “gender identity” and “gender expression” as protected classes. 

A parent in a custody dispute who refuses to embrace a child’s rejection of his or her sex would be penalized by the court, granting preference to the parent who favors “transitioning” their child. 

This is already happening in Colorado — and across the nation — as courts and child protective service agencies are removing sexually confused children from parents, but SB 26-018 codifies this abuse of parental rights into law. 

The bill, Legal Protections for the Dignity of a Minor, also suppresses court records of a minor’s name change, hiding the child’s original name and sex. 

In Colorado, 14-year-olds can initiate a legal name change without parental consent, and one parent can petition to change a child’s name and identity, without the other parent’s permission, as long as a judge decides this is in the “best interests” of the child. 

The parent pushing a child toward dangerous, experimental “transgender” medical procedures gains an advantage in custody cases over the parent who believes in biological reality. 

This is the second year in a row Colorado’s state legislators have tried to force parents to agree with a child’s sexual identity confusion — or lose out in custody battles. 

In 2025, as the Daily Citizen reported, the state passed House Bill 1312, Concerning Legal Protections for Transgender Individuals. 

Governor Jared Polis signed the bill into law, despite vehement opposition from thousands of Colorado citizens who signed petitions, attended rallies at the Capitol, testified against the measure, and made phone calls and sent emails to the governor and legislators.

That bill originally had a provision which would have allowed the government to remove children struggling with sexual identity confusion from their parent’s custody if they “misgendered” or “deadnamed” their child — meaning they simply affirmed their child’s true sexual identity and given name.

Because of the backlash, that provision was finally dropped, but the final version of the bill still contained horrible provisions. HB 1312, now the law, allows a student to choose a different name and sexual identity while at school — and requires staff to lie by using the student’s “chosen name” and recognize his or her new identity.  

HB 1312 also requires schools to allow “each student to choose from any of the options provided in the dress code policy.” So boys may wear girls clothing — and vice versa. The law is facing litigation from several parents’ rights groups. 

Colorado is one of many states where courts and child protective service agencies are already attacking parents who do not support their child’s sexual identity confusion. 

Erin Lee, founder and director of Protect Kids Colorado, recently stated in an interview: 

I’ve now helped over a dozen families in Colorado who have lost custody of their children, even in two parent loving households, for not affirming their child’s gender confusion.

In a post on X, Lee pointed to families in Arizona, California, Indiana, Maryland, Montana and Texas where one or both parents lost custody of their children so they could be medically damaged by transgender interventions. 

The parental rights activist, who works to protect children from transgender harms, spotlighted SB 26-018 in a separate post on X, saying:

Once again, Colorado is passing laws to TAKE CHILDREN AWAY FROM PARENTS who will not trans them. If you won’t tell your child they’re born in the wrong body & sterilize them, the state will take them. (Her emphasis.) 

Lee encouraged Coloradans to fight back against this destructive legislation — as does Focus on the Family. 

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Proposed Executive Order Would Protect Parental Rights

A pro-family, pro-child coalition urged the Trump administration this week to issue an executive order protecting parental rights and the religious freedom of Christian parents and foster parents.

The proposed order, which the coalition workshopped with the White House Domestic Policy Council on Wednesday, would:

  • Explicitly affirm parents’ constitutional right to raise their children according to their religious beliefs.
  • Repeal federal foster care rules preventing or obstructing people who affirm biological sex from becoming foster parents.
  • Prohibit organizations from using federal funds to remove children from parents who do not affirm same-sex attraction or sexual identity confusion.
  • Remove federal funding from organizations which help children conceal sexual identity confusion from their parents.

These four recommendations would prevent federal and state governments from unconstitutionally withholding adoption and foster care licenses from Christians or taking children with sexual identity confusion away from loving, Christian parents.

States like Colorado, Massachusetts, Vermont, Oregon, Washington and California require prospective foster parents to affirm a child’s same-sex attraction and sexual identity confusion.

In 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services released regulations giving progressive, “gender affirming” foster care placement organizations privileged status over biology-affirming ones.

Policies like these prevent people like Jessica Bates, Bryan and Rebecca Gantt, Brian and Katy Wuoti and Mike and Kitty Burkes from fostering or adopting some of the estimated 400,000 children in the U.S. foster care system.

Parents in many states can also lose custody of their children for failure to affirm their same-sex attraction or sexual identity confusion.

The Indiana Department of Child Services took custody of Mary and Jeremy Cox’s 16-year-old son after the couple refused to affirm his “transgender identity.” A court eventually found the Cox’s had not abused their son — but the state never gave him back.

He remained in the department’s care to receive treatment for an eating disorder which had worsened while he was away from home.

The Coxes are just one of innumerable heartbreaking examples of state agencies taking children from loving parents who affirm biological. Erin Friday, one of the coalition leaders who met with the White House on Wednesday, says the number of families in this situation far exceeds most people’s expectations.

“The public is unaware that children are being kidnapped by child protective services and family judges because these cases are usually sealed or there are confidentiality laws that prevent parents from going public,” she told The Daily Signal.

Christian parents need not have their child taken to suffer under child protective agencies’ scrutiny.

Erin Lee received an unexpected visit from the Colorado Department of Human Services after she tried to hold her daughter’s public school accountable for secretly teaching gender ideology.

“We managed to evade losing our children that day, but I’ve met many parents who weren’t so lucky,” Lee, who eventually saved her daughter from damaging sexual identity confusion, told the Daily Wire.

She continued:

I also had a six-year-old and an infant at the time and I shudder to think that I could have lost all three of my kids for being a good parent, for being unwilling to lie to my daughter and send her down a path of self-hatred and destruction.

Laws and policies penalizing Christian parents and prospective foster parents for questioning “gender affirming care” are increasingly ludicrous given the mounting evidence proving sex-rejecting procedures harm minors.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ own, peer-reviewed report found “transgender” medical interventions — including puberty blockers, wrong-sex hormones and surgeries — pose “significant, long term and too often ignored” harms to children.

It’s about time America’s foster care systems reflect reality.

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18 States Sue HHS for Protecting Children From Sex-Rejecting Procedures

A coalition of 18 states on Tuesday filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from protecting children from sex-rejecting, mutilating procedures.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., at a Protecting Children event on December 18, announced multiple regulatory actions the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would take to protect children from “transgender” medical interventions.

The department is working to fulfill President Trump’s executive order, signed on January 28, 2025, Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation.

The secretary revealed that earlier on Dec. 18, he signed a declaration: “Sex-rejecting procedures are neither safe nor effective treatment for children with gender dysphoria.” It establishes new standards of care and rules out interventions like puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries, which “fail to meet” those standards.

The secretary may “exclude individuals or entities from participation in any Federal health care program” if they fail to comply with the declaration.

Secretary Kennedy drew from a comprehensive review, which HHS released earlier this year, of the evidence for treating children with gender dysphoria. It found there is “very weak evidence of benefit” for “medical interventions, such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, that attempt to transition children and adolescents away from their sex.”

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is also proposing a rule barring hospitals from performing sex-rejecting procedures on children under age 18 as a condition of participation in Medicare and Medicaid programs. Nearly all U.S. hospitals participate Medicare and Medicaid.

“This proposal seeks to clarify that hospitals participating in our programs cannot conduct these unproven procedures on children,” said CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz in a press release. “CMS will ensure that federal program standards reflect our responsibility to promote the health and safety of children.”

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, is led by the attorneys general of New York, Oregon, and Washington.

It argues the Kennedy Declaration “exceeds the Secretary’s authority and violates the Administrative Procedure Act and the Medicare and Medicaid statutes.” The attorneys general are asking the court to strike down the declaration and prevent the Trump administration from enforcing it.

“Secretary Kennedy cannot unilaterally change medical standards by posting a document online” New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement. “And no one should lose access to medically necessary health care because their federal government tried to interfere in decisions that belong in doctors’ offices.”

Joining the lawsuit are the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia, as well as the governor of Pennsylvania.

At the Protecting Children event, Fox News’ Chief Washington Correspondent Mike Emanuel asked Kennedy about the possibility of Democrat-led states and LGBT-activist groups filing lawsuits against HHS’ actions, tying the administration up in court for the next several years.

“I think that’s going to happen,” Kennedy replied, joking, “The number of lawsuits with my name on it right now is almost beyond counting.”

“We know what we’re doing is legal,” he added. “And if people sue us, they’re welcome to, but we’re going to win the lawsuits.”

The Trump administration is exactly right – and deserves commendation – for protecting children from damaging and mutilating transgender medical interventions. Let’s hope and pray it quickly prevails in court.

The case is Oregon v. Kennedy.

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Parents Should Dread Netflix’s Purchase of Warner Brothers

Netflix inked a $72 billion deal to purchase Warner Brothers and HBO last week. The merger, if successful, will allow Netflix to insert LGBT content into family favorites including Harry Potter, Looney Tunes and the DC comic book universe.

“Together, [Warners Bros and Netflix] can give audiences more of what they love and help define the next century of storytelling,” Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos wrote in a press release announcing the deal.

Netflix normalizes and promotes same-sex attraction and sexual identity confusion as part of its commitment to “inclusion.”

“Netflix content has continued to show gains when it comes to LGBTQ+ representation over the past 6 years,” the platform celebrated in its 2025 report on inclusivity. “The number of stories without an LGBTQ+ character has continued to decline.”

In 2023, more than 50% of lead characters in Netflix’s original series were LGBT-identified, the report found, compared to 19% in 2018.

Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros would allow the streaming service to impose its sexual ethic on a massive library of beloved movies and TV shows.

Netflix already adds LGBT content and character to reboots of popular children’s shows.

In a recent examination of 326 children’s TV shows on Netflix, Concerned Women for America identified LGBT content in reboots of Power Rangers, She-Ra, The Fairly OddParents and The Magic School Bus, among others.

The report’s observations align with customer complaints from September, when this clip from a Netflix original cartoon, Dead End: Paranormal Park, went viral.

Jaw-dropping scenes from reboots of children’s shows surfaced soon after. In this this clip from The Baby-Sitters Club, a character chastises hospital staff for referring to a transgender-identified boy using biologically correct pronouns.

In this scene from Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City, a male “transberry” who “loves living out loud as his authentic self” dresses in drag.

Concerned Women for America concluded one-third of shows rated TV-G, -Y or -Y7 on Netflix “contained LGBT characters, themes, storylines or messaging.” Of the 23 children’s programs Netflix created or licensed in 2023, 14 contained LGBT content.

The seriousness of Netflix gaining dictatorial control over the entertainment industry cannot be overstated. Netflix belongs to an ideological community which explicitly endeavors to normalize and affirm same-sex attraction and sexual identity confusion by introducing LGBT content to children.

“There was a time not very long ago when … I would never be allowed to put an out gay, lesbian, bi, trans, gender-nonconforming or gender non-binary character in a show,” Michal Vogal, an animator for Strawberry Shortcake and My Little Pony, told OX Magazine in 2019.

He continued:

But slowly, little by little, animated shows have been pushing that boundary. A background couple here, someone’s parents there and every time, as little as it may seem, it allows someone else on some other show to push the envelope a little bit more.

Vogal expanded on the importance of targeting children:

One of the reasons I think it’s so important to tell [LGTB] stories in animation is so that future allies can see our stories at a young age. Then they can better understand what they can do and how they can help.

The normalization and promotion of same-sex attraction and sexual identity confusion correlates with a nationwide spike in the number of LGBT-identified Americans.

A record 9.3% of American adults self-identify as LGBT, a 2025 Gallup poll found, with each generation of adults reporting higher numbers of LGBT-identification. An estimated 23% of Gen Z adults are LGBT-identified, compared to 14% of millennials and just 5% or less of those in older older generations.

Netflix’s purchase of Warner Bros is not set in stone. Paramount Pictures Warner Bros’ shareholders an alternative offer on December 8.  Investors can sell their shares to Paramount until January 8.

If Paramount’s bid fails, Netflix still faces an uphill battle to convince American regulators the merger will not form a monopoly.

Regardless of the outcome, parents should understand Netflix’s pending purchase of Warner Bros as an important example of how an entertainment company’s ideology dictates the content of individual TV shows and movies.

Netflix promotes LGBT content as part of its brand strategy. Parents should err on the side of caution when deciding whether their child should consume any content on Netflix.

For faith-based reviews on movies, TV shows, video games and more, check out Focus on the Family’s Plugged In.

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Gender Ideology is Wrong: There Are Only Two Sexes

Anti-scientific gender theory holds that human sexuality is a glorious “gender spectrum,” a veritable rainbow of possibilities.

One can find seemingly scientific books and articles making this case here, here, here, here and here.

But a new article published in the esteemed Archives of Sexual Behavior explains why such talk is bunk. Entitled “Why There are Exactly Two Sexes,” it is authored by evolutionary biologist Colin Wright. Evolutionists, after all, have a keen interest in what male and female are, and how both cooperate to pass DNA down through the generations.

Wright explains that science defines male and female in their reproductive function. The very first line of his article states, “Across anisogamous species, the existence of two – and only two – sexes has been a settled matter in modern biology.”

“The sexes – male and female – refer to these two distinct reproductive strategies in anisogamous species. Males are defined as the sex that produces numerous small gametes (sperm). Females, conversely, are defined as the sex that yields fewer but larger gametes (ova),” Wright correctly states.

Of course, this long established view is supported by other scholars. Wright explains, “Because sperm and ova are the only two gamete classes in anisogamous systems, there are only two sexes.” As such, “This gametic dimorphism underlies biologists’ reference to sex as a ‘binary.’”

Such a basic biological definition might seem obvious to most people, but Wright explains “the societal and ethical stakes are also significant.” Gender theory has infamously defined male and female away into oblivion. Wright says this is driven by unscientific, ideological dogma. “Proposals to redefine sex in terms of karyotypes, secondary sexual characteristics, behavior, or other correlates are incoherent and invariably presuppose this foundation, because the categories ‘male’ and ‘female’ are intelligible only by reference to sperm and ova.”

Wright is a secular evolutionary biologist. But just as this truth is reflected in science, it is also revealed in the wisdom of Scripture.

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth” (Gen. 1:27-28, ESV).

Scripture tells us humanity is created in two forms – male and female – and each is the unique and deeply consequential image and likeness of God. God created male and female with many essential and distinct qualities, but the first command He gave them was to live out their sex-distinct procreative nature. In this way, we become cooperators with God as life-givers.

And this is precisely why the truth and beauty of male and female are being so viciously attacked today by the evil one. He knows what they mean. Christians must as well.

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