Colorado parents unload on liberal lawmakers, prompting changes to controversial gender bill
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Parents packed a Wednesday night Colorado Senate hearing to voice outrage over a gender identity bill that critics say could attack parental rights.
HB25-1312, which imposes state-mandated gender policies on schools, initially would have considered a parent’s refusal to affirm their child’s gender identity as “coercive control” in child custody cases.
“Pass this bill and history will not remember you as heroes, it will remember you as cowards who sold out the rights of the people for the approval of extremists,” one concerned dad declared.
Others branded the bill an “attack on parental rights,” with one saying the measure could be more accurately called “how to break up families and use the law to steal children from their parents.”
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Colorado parents blasted state lawmakers at hearing over a controversial transgenderism bill. (The Faulkner Focus)
Another more succinctly said, “disagreement is not abuse.”
After much contention, sponsoring lawmakers, Democratic Sens. Chris Kolker and Faith Winter, stripped the bill of its most controversial provisions before an overnight vote — and while Republicans say it’s a big win for them and for parents, their fight
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