Colorado's transgenderism bill has Orwell rolling in his grave

Parental rights warriors are sounding the alarm on what they’re calling a straight-up "totalitarian" transgenderism bill that just got rammed through the Colorado state House. This thing’s got ‘em worried it could tank parents’ chances in custody battles if they dare "misgender" or "deadname" their kids. Yeah, you heard that right. Dystopian much?

Erin Lee, a fired-up mom from the Centennial State, laid it out plain on Fox News' "The Faulkner Focus" Monday: "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." She didn’t hold back,

 adding, "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." 

The bill in question, HB25-1312, is a doozy. It slaps state-mandated gender policies on schools and calls it "coercive control" in custody cases if a parent doesn’t play along with their kid’s gender identity. 

Imagine this: the bill flat-out says, "when making child custody decisions and determining the best interests of a child for purposes of parenting time, a court shall consider deadnaming, misgendering or threatening to publish material related to an individual’s gender-affirming health-care services as types of coercive control." 

Dubbed the Kelly Loving Act—named after a transgender man killed in that 2022 Colorado nightclub shooting by a nonbinary gunman—this bill also tells Colorado courts to flip the bird to other states’ laws that yank kids from parents who green-light transgender treatments for minors. It’s a bold Orwellian move, and it’s got people angry.

For moms like Lee and California’s Erin Friday, this isn't just politics—it’s personal. 

Both their daughters went through a phase of identifying as boys, but Lee and Friday held firm, didn’t buy into it, and their girls eventually dropped the transgender label. Friday, who’s been a Democrat her whole life, didn’t mince words: "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." 

She’s calling it a "massive First Amendment violation," and she’s not wrong. This thing’s a constitutional gut-punch and like all good communist ideas, it takes parental authority away and gives it to Big Brother,.

Friday’s pushing for a bipartisan rebellion, saying parents gotta hit the courts, the public square, and those legislative hearings hard. She and Lee are crystal clear: the whole “born in the wrong body” idea is nonsense, and they’re not here for it. 

The bill’s now headed to the state Senate, so the fight’s far from over.
Oh, and get this: at a heated hearing last month, some Colorado Democrat had the gall to compare concerned parents to the KKK. Classy move, pal. Stay tuned, ‘cause this one’s gonna get messier than a bar fight on dollar-beer night.

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