Posted on 08/24/2025 12:12:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“If they are interacting with a customer and the customer says, this is my preferred name and these are my preferred pronouns, this is the way I want to be addressed, there is a legal obligation to do that. They're compelled to use those pronouns and those surnames under Colorado's law.
That's compelled speech, and the real kicker is there criminal penalties for it. You can have prison time, jail time for up to 4 months if you don't abide that.”
- Kristen Waggoner, President, CEO & General Counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom
(Excerpt) Read more at x.com ...
At least in the US. Colorado wants to join the EU apparently.
They seem to be unaware of the whole first amendment thing.
That was a bill up for a vote in Michigan, too.
Michigan Legislature HB 4474. The 2023 bill package expanded the state’s existing hate crime law.
Opponents of the bill fought the section which made “misgendering” speech a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
After considerable backlash, the bill was revised and passed in 2024 without the misgendering wording.
CO ping
Do NOT give in to this mental illness. DO NOT COMPLY. If you give up, it’s all over.
It has not been perfected. If it were there would be no way to tell short of karyotyping , and the patients would be happy and normal, and able to do everything a normal person of their choice could do. Rather than being at high risk of remorse, depression, suicide and commission of vengeful murder.
Maybe that was a joke and you meant castration has been perfected by Colorado ranchers, in that case, never mind.
Absolutely
Will
Not
Comply
Ever
Preferred by who? If it’s me the correct pronouns are hey doofus or hey dummy. Take your pick.
Total government control of speech is rampant in Europe, and they’re getting away with it, why not in progressive states like colorado. This will continue until the citizen rise up and size the Constitution.
What about freedom of speech. Why does anyone have to go along with these insane delusions?
Lawyers PARACHUTING in.
Such a formerly great state has gone insane.
I’ve long held that politicians who deliberately propose blatantly unconstitutional laws just to see what they can get away with should be tossed from office and imprisoned.
I must be addressed as His Royal Highness, Supreme Ruler of the Known and Unknown Universe, Senior Admiral of All the Seas, Ruling General of All the Land, Senior Reptilian Leader of the Galactic Federation Space Force.
They better get every word correct!
Telling your fellow sales associate; "Karen here would like a dress that doesn't make Karen look so fat because Karen likes Karen's donuts."
These folks explain what was stripped out: https://www.thefire.org/news/colorado-reversal-misgendering-ban-crisis-averted-danger-revealed
OTOH, if you think your post and article are accurate, please post a link to the actual Bill that this article refers to (House Bill 25-1312) and point out where these things are still in the bill and still call for jail time.
Otherwise, this is fake/obsolete news.
This will go all the way to the Supreme Court.
Who do those Colorado Dems think they are? Members of Parliament?
Ha!
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