Two ghastly bills in Colorado

Colorado is already one of the most radically pro-abortion states in the nation. It has officially declared itself to be a sanctuary state for woman seeking abortions. Nothing will stand in the Rocky Mountain State’s way of providing any woman whatever abortion she feels she needs at any stage of pregnancy as quickly as possible. It is now on the verge of becoming one of the most liberal sanctuary states for gender confused youth and enabling adults.

Two draconian bills are barreling their way through the Colorado General Assembly. An emergency session was even called this past Sunday to push this through their House of Representatives. They are now in the Senate.

Democrats who dominate the State House abruptly shut down debate on the legislation on Sunday, as Republican Rep. Jarvis Caldwell explained, “to silence us because they know how much negative attention this has been getting nationwide.”

The negative press is fully warranted.

The first bill, HB 25-1309, is the financial facilitator for children becoming gender-medicine patients for life. This short three-page proposal dictates that “all health benefit plans” operating in Colorado “shall not deny or limit gender-affirming health care” for children and adults. This means fully funded access to cross sex hormones, puberty blockers, genital and breast mutilation as well as—and these are all specifically stated in the bill—“eye and lid,” forehead, neck, and lip restructuring and “facial bone remodeling” including jaw, cheek, chin, and nose. They even listed lifetime hair removal. All this is manipulatively presented as “medically necessary gender-affirming health care,” and the bill provides no age limitations whatsoever.

However, it is well-documented that upwards of 61 to 98 percent of gender confused youth naturally “desist” in their gender confusion and come to live happily with their natural male or female body by early adulthood.

What is more, the bill allows that young patients don’t even need to have such invasive, irreversible procedures and off-label drug applications prescribed by a medical doctor. A “behavioral health-care provider”—which is listed five times in this short bill and never defined—will suffice. Of course, this will likely be an ideologically aligned counselor who any confused child can easily find by following the bright rainbow and ally stickers on their office door, social media, or website. The counselor only need deem them “medically necessary.”

So this first bill usurps the financial gate-keeping power of parents. The second is even more pernicious because it neutralizes responsible parents and teachers in the child’s life.

HB25-1312 establishes that no parent may object to the gender radicalization of their child in any way and that all Colorado public and charter school staff must fully affirm the process. Any parent facilitating such dramatic and permanent changes in their child will always have dominance in state law over the more cautious parent, whether that objecting parent be in or out of the state.

Further, the bill dictates that a parent will lose legal custody of their child by simply refusing to recognize and affirm the child’s new and often suddenly adopted “gender identity.” Even the American Psychiatric Association admits “transgender” is not a medical term.

This intentional legal imbalance will break up families when one parent wisely refuses to go along with life-altering processes that increasing numbers of European nations are now backing away from.

The official summary of the bill states, “when making child custody decisions and determining the best interests of a child for purposes of parenting time, 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.”

This last part silences the protective parent from warning others about the ghastly, life-altering “top and bottom” surgeries that were performed on their children all in the name of “life-saving health care.” These are processes that untold scores of young people like Chloe Cole have come to deeply regret.

Colorado schools must also develop a “safe school plan” and “safe school reporting requirements” to ensure that every public or charter school is fully facilitating the breadth of any student’s gender experimentation. The law also stipulates that no school may “create or enforce any rules based on gender, and must allow each student to abide by any variation of the dress code.”

This legislation is clearly designed by gender redefinition activists because it is ridden with jargony terms that have no real meaning outside of LGBT-affirming echo-chambers like “deadname,” “misgender,” “chosen name,” “gender identity,” and “gender expression.” It puts tragically confused or manipulated children in the driver’s seat over and against cautiously responsible parents and school officials. If passed, these bills will turn Colorado into a gender sanctuary state for vulnerable youth who desperately need responsible adults to stand up and advocate for them. Your state could be next.