Your Name Is Your Name

Another state another trans bill!

But this is a pro-trans bill form Colorado...

Colorado bill adding protections for transgender people — including against “deadnaming” — passes first hurdle

Bill would also require family courts to consider a parent’s misgendering of a child in a custody dispute

The Denver Post

By Seth Klamann

April 2, 2025

Transgender Coloradans — particularly children and supportive parents — would gain increased legal protections against discrimination under new legislation that cleared its first hurdle in the state House early Wednesday morning.

The party-line vote to advance House Bill 1312 came after 10 hours of dueling testimony from backers who decried anti-transgender discrimination and opponents who invoked parents’ rights and other objections.

The bill is formally named the Kelly Loving Act for a transgender woman killed in the 2022 Club Q nightclub shooting in Colorado Springs. Under the proposal, the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, which includes gender identity as a protected class, would add intentionally misgendering transgender people or referring to them by their “deadname” — meaning the name they used before they transitioned — to the discriminatory acts covered by the law in public accommodations.

The measure would also require family courts to consider a parent’s intentional deadnaming or misgendering of their transgender child during custody proceedings. It would prohibit courts from using other states’ anti-transgender laws to facilitate transferring custody of a child from one parent to another because the child received gender-affirming care.

Meanwhile Fox News is having a hissy fit over the bill!

Colorado Dems ram abortion, transgender bills through on limited Sunday session debate: 'Unprecedented'

Colorado Republicans says Dems pushed radical bills through on Sunday, a day for 'family and prayer'

By Jamie Joseph

April 7, 2025

The Colorado Democratic House majority pushed through a slate of controversial gender and abortion bills on Sunday, curtailing floor debate in what Republican lawmakers called an "unprecedented" tactic.

"It should alarm every American that Colorado's Majority used a Sunday — a day typically reserved for family and prayer — to force through four of the most extreme bills of the session," Republican House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese told Fox News Digital on Monday.

Pugliese said while "weekend work" is a "tactic the majority uses to punish the minority," it was especially "unprecedented" this time because of the highly controversial nature of the bills.

Gee have you noticed that then the Republicans do something like this Fox News praises it. And then "reserved for family and prayer" yeah at the shopping mall! Or in front of a sports game on TV.

The bills that were passed include SB25-183, which requires taxpayers to fund abortion services; HB25-1309, mandating insurers cover transgender procedures regardless of age; HB25-1312, which imposes state-mandated gender policies on schools and considers it "coercive control" in child custody cases when a parent does not affirm a child's gender identity; and SB25-129, which prohibits cooperation with out-of-state investigations on transgender procedures and abortion services.

According to state House Majority Democrat Leader Monica Duran, the four bills were debated on the floor for more than 12 hours last week.

I was in the House Gallery in the Connecticut House watching Republicans do the same thing!