‘Absolutely Nuts’: Blue State Bill Aims To Jail Those Who ‘Misgender’ Dead People
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February 17, 2025
4:46 PM ET
A Colorado bill could put doctors, government employees or morticians in jail if they accurately record the sex of deceased people who identified as transgender.
The Colorado House is scheduled to hold a hearing on Feb. 25 examining legislation that would make it a crime not to abide by the chosen “gender identity” of deceased individuals on their death certificates. Medical experts expressed alarm at the attempt to erase biological reality from crucial state-issued documents.
“It’s dangerous and absolutely nuts to threaten doctors with a misdemeanor if they won’t forge a death certificate. But it’s what I’d expect in Colorado,” Dr. Travis Morrell, a Colorado physician and senior fellow with the conservative-leaning medical group Do No Harm, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“The first thing you learn in middle school science is to write in your lab book with a pen; honest data recording is science 101,” Morrell added.
🚨Apparently modifying birth certificates to replace a person’s “sex” with “gender identity” wasn’t enough.
Now activists are worried about misgendering the DEAD, and 3 CO Dems have introduced a bill requiring death certificates to reflect a deceased person’s “gender identity.” pic.twitter.com/4Q84pf1YnL
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) February 13, 2025
Colorado law currently authorizes “qualified individuals” such as coroners, medical examiners and forensic pathologists to create death certificates. The proposed bill, sponsored by Democratic Colorado state Reps. Karen McCormick and Kyle Brown alongside Democratic Colorado state Sen. Mike Weissman, would require the document to “reflect the decedent’s gender identity.”
The three legislators did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.
“An individual who knowingly and willfully violates these requirements commits a class 2 misdemeanor,” the bill says regarding those who prepare the certificates. This brings up to 120 days in jail and up to $750 in fines.
The bill says relatives can request a change to a death certificate by submi
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