In case you thought Democrats would back down from their transgender authoritarianism, Colorado Democrats are looking to make “misgendering” illegal and make transitioning children a sticking point in child custody battles.
Four Colorado Democrats have introduced a bill called the Kelly Loving Act. The bill would make it so that any parent in a child custody battle who does not support his or her son becoming a girl or daughter becoming a boy could lose custody based only on that fact. “Deadnaming,” “misgendering,” or even wanting to release details of what doctors are doing to transition the child would be considered “types of coercive control” over that child.
This is notable because it is similar to the bill that was passed by California Democrats and was only blocked by a veto from Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to protect his presidential prospects. But it is also notable because the Colorado bill wouldn’t stop there. The bill would “define deadnaming and misgendering as discriminatory acts in the ‘Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act,’ and prohibit these discriminatory acts in places of public accommodation.”
You may remember the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act as the same law that Colorado Democrats used to harass baker Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop. Phillips has been dragged to court twice by Colorado, which wanted to violate his religious freedom to force him to customize a cake first for a gay wedding and then for a sex change celebration. This new Democratic bill would then sic the Colorado Civil Rights Commission on any public accommodation that “misgenders” or “deadnames” someone. Public accommodations typically include stores, hotels, emergency shelters, and gyms.
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Phillips spent over a decade fighting these two court cases, and even now, the prospect of lawfare continuing against him hangs over him and his business, given that the second case was only “dismissed on procedural grounds.” Colorado Democrats now want to expand that lawfare to any business that doesn’t play into the fiction that you can change your gender and take away children from parents who don’t want their children pumped full of cross-sex hormones and prepared for surgical sex changes in service of that fiction.
If it wasn’t clear already, it should be clear now that Democrats aren’t going to abandon the insanity of the transgender movement and its hysterical activists after the 2024 elections. The party is too invested in the movement and far too fearful of those activists to cut ties, so Democratic legislators will keep trying to kick the ball forward no matter how radical the policies that result may be.