In the midst of rising vitriol targeted against the transgender community by conservative media figures and government officials, One Colorado, the state’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization, is launching a new organizing campaign aimed at shifting the conversation around trans rights.
Anti-transgender activists in Colorado are trying to resuscitate ballot initiatives targeting trans people, specifically trans youth who participate in sports. At a Colorado Title Board hearing yesterday, a slew of proposals from conservative activists were proposed, including one spearheaded by the head of a local chapter of an anti-trans hate group, Gays Against Groomers (GAG).
Colorado Republican legislators and pastors gathered at the Capitol yesterday to oppose House Bill 25-1312, the Kelly Loving Act, named after one of the victims of the 2022 Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs. The bill would require courts to consider deadnaming, misgendering, or threatening to publish material related to an individual’s gender-affirming health-care services as types of coercive control when making custody decisions; protect transgender patients and their parents from out-of-state actions; allow students to choose between sex-based dress code options; and define deadnaming and misgendering as discriminatory acts in the “Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act.”
One Colorado, a leading LGBTQ+ advocacy group in the state, recently announced two programs to bolster transgender rights across the state.
One Colorado, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group, will be rallying supporters on Sunday in a kickoff event for their “Get Out the Vote” efforts.
Former state Rep. Lori Saine, who is a GOP congressional candidate and self-proclaimed conservative firebrand, seemingly took umbrage with gender-nonconforming children earlier this month, posting a meme to Facebook decrying a supposed decline in the masculinity of young boys.
More than 100 people showed up to a Denver rally to support the LGBTQ community after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.
Colorado State Rep. Lori Saine, a Republican from Firestone, shared an article on Facebook from the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) that condemns what it refers to as “gender ideology” and claims that the acceptance of transgender people amounts to child abuse.
A coalition of Colorado grassroots groups launched a website Tuesday where constituents can find rankings for their state representatives.
Amid national political attacks on transgender rights, Colorado’s State House passed a bill yesterday that would make it easier for people to change the gender on their birth certificate to the gender they identify with.
