Colorado parent groups sue state over controversial new transgender law enforcing ‘compelled speech’
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Colorado potentially faces a major lawsuit regarding a new law on transgender protections and how it could violate free speech and parental rights.
On Friday, Gov. Jared Polis signed into law the Kelly Loving Act, a bill that expands state anti-discrimination protections for transgender individuals by allowing a person’s “chosen name” to qualify as a form of “gender expression” that is protected under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA).
Now that the bill has passed, the group Defending Education (DE) has sued the state on behalf of the Do No Harm, The Colorado Parent Advocacy Network and Protect Kids Colorado groups out of concerns that the law could violate their free speech rights.
“The Act’s new definition of ‘gender expression’ is unconstitutionally overbroad,” the lawsuit provided to Fox News Digital reads. “Because it covers any treatment based on the use of a ‘chosen name’ or other forms of preferred ‘address,’ it punishes many forms of constitutionally protected speech.”
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A new Colorado law would make a person’s “chosen name” a protected form of gender expression. (Fox News Digital )
It continued, “When speakers refer to transgender-identifying individuals using biologically accurate terms, they advance a viewpoint about a hot-button political issue: gender ideology. That kind of speech lies at the core of the First Amendment. But the Act’s definition of ‘gender expression’ makes all such speech discriminatory and unlawful.”
The lawsuit added that since CADA prohibits the “publishing of discriminative matter,” the new act could prohibit and potentially penalize individuals, including parents, for publicly disapproving of changing one’s name and gender.
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