CV NEWS FEED // On Sunday, April 6, Colorado House Democrats advanced pro-abortion bills and legislation that considers it child abuse for parents to refer to their child according to his or her true sex in instances that would be considered “misgendering” by LGBT activists.
According to Colorado House Bill 25-1312’s summary, the bill stipulates that when a court is weighing a child custody decision, “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.”
“Deadnaming” is a term used in pro-LGBT circles to refer to using a person’s original name — in this instance a child’s original name — after he or she has adopted or been assigned a new one to match a new “gender identity.”
Republican Rep. Brandi Bradley said in a statement on X that the bill’s proponents have “declared war on parents — and they chose Sunday to do it.”
The state Legislature was called into session “on the LORDS Day–to ram through abortion bills and HB25-1312, the most extreme assault on parental rights and religious freedom we’ve ever seen,” Bradley wrote.
On the same day, the Colorado House advanced two pro-abortion bills and another pro-transgender bill as well.
The House passed HB 1312 almost fully along party lines 36-20, with nine absent, according to the Daily Signal. The only Democrat who voted against the bill was Rep. Bob Marshall.
The bill now goes to the state’s Senate Judiciary Committee. Republicans face an uphill battle in defeating the bill, as the Senate has a 23-12 Democrat majority, and Colorado’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis generally has sided in support of “transgender” ideology, according to the Signal.
GOP Rep: HB 1312 is ‘pure madness’
In her X post, Bradley slammed HB 1312 as “pure madness,” noting it also forces schools, including charters, to adhere to “gender transition policies” and provides cover for parents who traffic children into Colorado for irreversible “transgender” surgical mutilations.
According to the Signal and Republican Rep. Jarvis Caldwell, April 6’s debate on the bill was cut short, excluding parental rights groups and elected officials from participating in discussion on the bill.
In an April 6 X post, Caldwell said he was “silenced and robbed of speaking on behalf of my 90,000 House District 20 constituents” on the pro-transgender bill.
As the debate was about to begin, the Democrat majority invoked Rule 16, which ends debate and moves the bill immediately to a vote, according to Caldwell.
Caldwell said if he had been able to speak, he would have spotlighted that it is neither he, nor his fellow Republicans, nor his constituents, who are pushing gender ideology on children, but Democrats.
“And what they want to do with this bill is say that if they confuse your children, and you don’t affirm that confusion, they will take your child from you,” Caldwell said.
In a statement to the Signal, Caldwell warned that the bill creates a “legal imbalance that could lead to serious consequences for parents who do not affirm their child’s gender dysphoria.”
Rep. Bradley reiterated in her April 6 X post that she is willing to fight for Colorado families.
“If it’s a war on families they want… it’s a war they’re gonna get.”
Pro-abortion state legislation also advances
On April 6, the Colorado legislature also advanced pro-abortion Senate Bills 183 and 129, according to ColoradoPolitics. SB 183 configures state statutes in accordance with Amendment 79, which Colorado voters passed last November to enshrine into law a so-called “right to an abortion” and repealed protections against state-funded abortions for state employees and Medicaid clients. The House’s 38-21 vote, with six excused, in favor of SB 183 sent the legislation to the governor to be signed into law. Marshall did vote in favor of this bill.
SB 129 relates to providing more legal coverage for health practitioners who provide “gender transition services” or chemical abortions. The House passed SB 129 in a 39-20, with Marshall again being the only Democrat voting against it. Their vote returns it to the Senate for review of proposed amendments.
The House also advanced HB 1309, which “codifies gender-affirming health care treatments in statute and prohibits a health benefit plan from denying or limiting medically necessary gender-affirming health care,” according to the bill summary. “Gender-affirming care” is commonly used as a euphemism for surgical mutilations of sex organs and chemical interventions. According to ColoradoPolitics, the bill passed 40-20 along party lines — except for Marshall — with five excused.
This article was last updated April 9 at 10:42 am ET.
