Parental rights advocates are sounding alarms over a controversial bill passed by the Colorado state House, warning that it could have far-reaching consequences for families—especially in child custody disputes—if parents refer to their children by their birth names or pronouns that don’t align with the child’s gender identity.
House Bill 25-1312, one of several measures backed by Democratic lawmakers earlier this month, introduces state-enforced gender identity policies in schools. It also redefines certain parental behaviors as “coercive control” in custody cases, including instances where a parent does not affirm a child’s stated gender identity.
Specifically, the bill instructs courts to treat actions such as “deadnaming, misgendering or threatening to publish material related to an individual’s gender-affirming health-care services” as coercive tactics when evaluating what serves a child’s best interests in custody and visitation matters.
If passed into law, the measure would establish the Kelly Loving Act, named in memory of a transgender man who was killed in a 2022 nightclub shooting in Colorado. The proposed law would also prohibit Colorado courts from recognizing out-of-state rulings that penalize parents who allow transgender-related medical care for minors.
Erin Friday, a longtime Democrat and vocal parental rights advocate, emphasized that the implications of this bill should concern individuals across the political spectrum. “The issue should be bipartisan,” she said, urging parents to challenge the legislation through legal action, public discourse, and civic engagement, including testimony at legislative hearings.
Both Friday and Colorado mother Erin Lee reject the notion that children can be born in the wrong body. The measure, which now awaits consideration in the state Senate, has drawn fierce debate. During a public hearing last month, a Democratic lawmaker compared parents opposing the bill to extremist groups, including “the KKK.”
“This is giving the authority to our state to take our children away if we don’t agree with these gender transitions, so it’s got huge ramifications for all parents, especially those in custody situations who are fighting with their ex-spouses to stop their children from being medicalized,” said Lee during a Monday appearance on Fox News’ The Faulkner Focus.
She continued, “It opens the door for all parents to potentially have their children forcibly removed by the state if they’re not willing to affirm their child’s mental health distress.”
Lee and Friday have deeply personal reasons for opposing the bill. Both women say their daughters once identified as boys, but they did not support their daughters’ transitions. In time, both daughters ceased identifying as transgender.
“This bill will not only determine that parents like Erin and I are abusers — both of us had Child Protective Services come to our home when we refused to call our daughter males — but this bill also affects the press and its freedom of the press, and it will require them to use the chosen name of a child, how they choose it, and any adult,” Friday cautioned. She also described the proposed legislation as a “massive First Amendment violation” if it goes into effect.
I knew in my Common Sense educated mind that many things in Colorado were absolutely wrong. Well…. This just demonstrates it to the world. STUPIDITY has overcome basic intelligence. Nobody is born stupid. It comes with knowing right and wrong, good and evil, and chosing wrong and evil. I started to call the left DEMON RATS under the auspices of a man who lied about everything in his life: obama! Raised in a madrassa in Indonesia, taught by a jihad proponent imam. He never even visited his teacher when he went there! obama is evil in too many ways. Hence the DEMON RAT epithet. Only one letter to change. In Colorado, one of the most beautiful state in the country, we have now the most awful lawmakers in the country. Even California has not gone down this far into abject STUPIDITY. That is saying a lot! Will common sense win the battle, even Democrat mother’s consider this the worst decision the lawmakers could choose! That is saying a lot! PRAY FERVENTLY GOD will intervene, as HE DID twice already electing PRESIDENT TRUMP. AND REDIRECTING THE BULLETS. GOD is the only ONE.
Right on!
You are totally correct. These so called lawmakers possibly have no idea they are dancing with the Devil. It’s a sad thought that that dance will be for eternity.
Taking a child away from it’s parents because they won’t cave to the state’s misbegotten law is tantamount to kidnapping with intent to harm the child.
1. If you are born XX then you are female. If you mind disagrees with that, then your mind needs healing.
2. If you are born XY then you are male. If your mind disagrees with that, then your mind needs healing.
Anyone who says different is wrong and any attempt to “correct” such disagreements between your body and your mind with surgery is simply body mutilation and any so called doctor who performs such mutilations has completely abrogated his oath to “first do no harm” and needs to have his medical licenses revoked and maybe put to work swinging a shovel at a construction site.
Amen. Common sense.
Colorado has gone down the drain with this nonsense. I tell my grandchildren that boys are born boys and can never be girls and girls are born girls and can never be boys. If any of them told me they were a different gender, I would lovingly tell them they may THINK that, but they are wrong. Don’t accept this evil.
This country and The World at large has bigger problems than confussed children and parents! If you can’t tell the difference from male and female? Go back to school, request a refund from school, don’t propagate, have yourself spayed or neutered and stop talking! Simply because listening is not your strong suit.
Colorado state is pursuing the path to create Mental Illness Day. . . . All in due time.
Time for any parent that loves their children to leave Colorado ASAP! It’s also time to start realizing that there is an evil entity that wants very much to destroy all children!