State Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer (R-Weld County) had quite the busy week. In addition to officially making the Republican gubernatorial primary ballot last Monday, she also led her party’s input into the state budget bill, known at the Capitol as the “long bill.”
Less than a month into 2023, Republican politicians are kicking the new legislative session off with overwhelming bigotry. According to the ACLU, over 150 bills targeting the LGBTQ community, and transgender people in particular, have already been introduced in legislatures across the country. In Colorado, three GOP legislators added a new bill to the pile this week, this one meant to attack trans athletes in Colorado’s public schools.
