Controversial gender identity bill heads to Colorado Senate floor vote – Washington Examiner
A controversial bill in Colorado, titled House Bill 25-1312, aimed at providing legal protections for transgender individuals, is set to proceed to a Senate floor vote next week after receiving approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill has sparked intense debate, with backing from transgender rights advocates and criticism from parental rights and religious groups. Amendments made during the committee session included the removal of a clause that could classify a parent’s use of “deadnaming” or misgendering a child as abuse in custody disputes. Despite these amendments, the bill would still label such actions as discriminatory under Colorado’s anti-discrimination laws. Advocates of the legislation have noted public feedback led to the removal of the controversial clause. Opponents, including the colorado Catholic Conference, argue that the bill enshrines discrimination against faith-based institutions and individuals holding differing beliefs about gender and sexuality. The bill is scheduled for discussion in the Senate on Monday.
Controversial gender identity bill heads to Colorado Senate floor vote
(The Center Square) — A controversial gender identity protection bill heads to the Colorado Senate floor next week after being approved with some major amendments in committee on Thursday.
House Bill 25-1312, titled “Legal Protections for Transgender Individuals,” has been hotly debated during the legislative session, garnering support from transgender rights groups and opposition from parental rights and religious groups.
The bill passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday following hours of debate. It was amended to remove the controversial “coercive control” clause, which would have allowed judges to consider a parent’s use of “deadnaming” or misgendering a child as abuse when making custody decisions.
The legislation would still make deadnaming and misgendering discriminatory actions under the state’s anti-discrimination act. Another amendment removed some language from the legislation’s shield provision, but would still shield parents from laws in other states that ban gender-related procedures.
Democratic sponsors of the bill pulled the “coercive control” clause, which was under Section 2 of the bill, after getting a lot of feedback from the public.
“We know that a lot of the emails we’ve been getting, a lot of the calls we have been getting have been focused on Section 2,” one of the bill sponsors Sen. Faith Winter, D-Westminster, told the committee before the amendment to cut the clause from the bill was approved.
The Colorado Catholic Conference was one of the opposing organizations that testified against the legislation, saying the bill amounts to “a codification of discrimination against faith-based and private institutions.”
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“Each person should be treated with dignity, respect and compassion,” CCC Executive Director Brittany Vessely testified, according to Denver Catholic. “But HB1312 codifies discrimination against any institution – faith-based or private – and individual with a different belief about human sexuality, and forces them to conform to government-mandated beliefs about ‘sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression’ under threat of criminal and financial penalties.”
HB 25-1312, which was approved by the House in early April, is scheduled to be heard Monday on the Senate floor.
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