{"id":1916867,"date":"2023-04-19T23:56:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T03:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colorados-new-trans-tourism-law-beckons-red-state-kids-for-trans-interventions-and-abortions\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T23:56:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T03:56:55","slug":"colorados-new-trans-tourism-law-beckons-red-state-kids-for-trans-interventions-and-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colorados-new-trans-tourism-law-beckons-red-state-kids-for-trans-interventions-and-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado\u2019s New \u2018Trans Tourism\u2019 Law Beckons Red-State Kids For Trans Interventions And Abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcolorados-new-trans-tourism-law-beckons-red-state-kids-for-trans-interventions-and-abortions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1916867&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>                         <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Colorado Democrat Gov. Jared Polis signed a new law last week to circumvent red-state bans on abortion and transgender treatments.<\/p>\n<p>While Republican lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/04\/17\/gop-state-legislatures-lgbtq-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ramp up protections<\/a> for vulnerable teens caught in America\u2019s contemporary <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/07\/31\/abigail-shrier-explains-why-transgenderism-is-exploding-among-teenage-girls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">transgender craze<\/a>, Polis aims to make Colorado a destination for impressionable minors to seek permanent procedures from puberty blockers to surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere in Colorado, we value individual freedoms, and we stand up to protect them,\u201d Polis <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/colorado-now-a-trans-tourism-state-for-parents-seeking-sex-changes-abortions-for-children\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> at the bill\u2019s signing ceremony. \u201cI\u2019m excited by the work of advocates and legislators to further Colorado\u2019s reputation as a beacon of freedom, a beacon of choice, a beacon of individuality where we live on our own terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bills\/sb23-188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Senate Bill 23-188<\/a>, signed into law Friday, opens the door for \u201ctrans tourism\u201d in the state, allowing minors to seek abortions or \u201cgender-affirming health care services.\u201d In other words, teens seduced by transgender ideology in Kansas, where lawmakers are <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/transgender-gender-affirming-care-ban-kansas-ef3e4d9ef40a29da3d8059d80bbed3a5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">preparing to ban<\/a> interventions for minors, may travel to Colorado for sterilizing procedures under Polis\u2019s protection <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5f4014672974cc3e014a4c8b\/t\/62ffdffce6a82a03d713de77\/1660936189228\/Youth+Bill+of+Rights.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">with<\/a> parental consent. Similar legislation is <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/map-gender-affirming-care-targeted-us\/story?id=97443087\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">under consideration<\/a> in Wyoming, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill to bar underage transgender surgeries earlier this year but included provisions in the legislation to make the new law <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/31\/utah-bill-barring-transgender-surgeries-for-children-is-toothless\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">toothless<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Senate bill signed last week, titled \u201cProtections For Accessing Reproductive Health Care,\u201d also allows minors to abort pregnancies without parental consent.<\/p>\n<p>The new law protects people seeking abortions and transgender interventions who travel to Colorado by prohibiting state or local agencies from penalizing complicit medical providers. The legislation also nullifies extradition requests in other states where such procedures are banned and refuses to recognize out-of-state criminal or civil proceedings relating to these procedures. Previously, Colorado already established itself as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2021\/09\/03\/texas-abortion-law-coloado-providers-out-of-state-patients\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">go-to destination<\/a> for women seeking abortions from Texas and Oklahoma, where it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/us\/abortion-laws-roe-v-wade.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">banned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While policymakers in other blue states already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/11\/blue-states-abortion-safe-havens-00031526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">passed<\/a> laws to establish their states as abortion \u201csafe havens,\u201d Colorado\u2019s protections for transgender minors seeking life-altering surgeries is a first-of-its-kind. The new law comes as transgender surgeries are expected to become a $5 billion-dollar industry by the end of the decade, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/transgender-surgery-poised-to-become-a-5-billion-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to a report last year from Grand View Research.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>   Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Democrat Gov. Jared Polis signed a new law last week to circumvent red-state bans on abortion and transgender treatments. While Republican lawmakers ramp up protections for vulnerable teens caught in America\u2019s contemporary transgender craze, Polis aims to make Colorado a destination for impressionable minors to seek permanent procedures from puberty blockers to surgery. \u201cHere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1916868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[13546,8579,24700,6537,24702,4247,6547,24701,7037],"class_list":["post-1916867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-red-state","tag-abortions","tag-beckons","tag-colorados","tag-interventions","tag-kids","tag-law","tag-tourism","tag-trans"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1916868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}