Colorado’s Totalitarian Transgenderism Bill

Wall Street Journal ^ | April 17, 2025 | Erin Friday and Erin Lee

[karpov]

We are both mothers whose daughters went through a phase in which they believed they were boys. We never affirmed that belief, although their schools and much of the broader culture did. Eventually, our daughters recognized their true identities and ceased identifying themselves as “transgender.” A bill under consideration in Colorado (where Ms. Lee lives) would define parents like us as child abusers. The measure would harm vulnerable children and violate the U.S. Constitution in multiple ways.

Lawmakers including state Reps. Yara Zokaie and Javier Mabrey have likened parents like us to Klansmen, and their legislation is expected to pass the state Senate and proceed to Gov. Jared Polis’s desk. A similar bill in California (where Ms. Friday lives) was vetoed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2024. He noted that in custody disputes, his state’s family courts already favor the parent who affirms the child’s claim to be a different sex. Since at least 2016, California Child Protective Services has removed children from homes where parents refused to accede to their children’s social or medical “gender transition.” Colorado has adopted similar practices, and so have other states, including conservative ones like Indiana and Montana. Lawmakers in Sacramento just killed a bill written by Ms. Friday that would have defined child abuse to exclude such refusal.

The Colorado bill, designated HB25-1312, seeks to formalize these practices. Should it pass, parents who use a minor child’s legal name—a name that typically requires parental consent to be changed—could be deemed abusive. In custody disputes, the parent who declines to use the child’s chosen name and third-person pronouns—irrespective of age, mental-health status and the consistency of the identity—could be denied custody or even visitation.

[karpov]

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[bk1000]

Who would imagine that thousands of imported liberals would vote to radically change a state. Stop bowing down to queers!

[xzins]

Someone needs to sue

[dljordan]

They’re also arming their revenue agents to go after the gun stores. This is tyranny.

[Wallace T.]

States under the control of conservatives must cease recognizing the extradition requests from leftist states. If a parent from Colorado takes his child to Utah or Wyoming to escape the other parent “transgendering” that child, the Utah or Wyoming authorities must deny an extradition from the Colorado authorities. Recently, a couple who fled Massachusetts to Texas to avoid vaccination requirements was found in a small town south of Dallas and was extradited back to Massachusetts where they were imprisoned and the child taken by the state child protection agency. The Republican leaders in conservative states must tell the child snatchers from leftist controlled states they have no right to extradite in these cases. We need a 21st Century parallel to the Underground Railroad of the antebellum era.

[GOPJ]

When girls 'wake up to being women' and discover some pervert has removed their breasts and mutilated their bodies - they often go into deep depression.

Liberals who back this horror done to minors are evil.

All of us need to stand with responsible parents and assist with making laws against medical professionals who sexually mutilate children.

And crazy parents? NO, you may NOT have your son't hand cut off because he beleives he's Captain Hook...

[chopperk]

What should Coloradians expect with freaks as Gov. and Mayor of Denver?

[fwdude]

Remember a couple of seconds ago when the trans-freak left was saying that childhood “transitioning” should be left up to the family and their medical team?

Now that the trans-freaks on the ascendancy in certain states, that went out the window in record time.

[fwdude]

Who would imagine that thousands of imported liberals would vote to radically change a state. Stop bowing down to queers!

This is a direct result of redefining marriage. It gave them carte blanche to do anything they want.

[Nifster]

Co-signing mental illness