Colorado House passes ‘deadnaming and misgendering’ bill that threatens parental custody

The Colorado House of Representatives passed a bill that would threaten parental rights over the use of pronouns and “deadnaming” of transgender people.

The bill, called the Kelly Loving Act, passed Colorado’s state House 38-20.

“When making child custody decisions and determining the best interests of a child for purposes of parenting time,” the bill’s summary reads, “a court shall consider deadnaming, misgendering, or threatening to publish material related to an individual’s gender-affirming health-care services,” which the bill calls “coercive control.”

Coercive control is a phrase that comes out of “feminist theory,” which holds that certain behavior is undertaken by males to keep females under control.

A research paper by feminists published in BMC Global Health calls coercive control “a purposeful and systematic men’s strategy to control and dominate their female partners.”

Feminist theory is a Marxist theory that lent much to the now-debunked critical race theory as a viewpoint theory about the weak and oppressed emphasizing so-called social justice over all other types of outcomes. 

Republican state Rep. Jarvis Caldwell asked who was consulted on the bill as it was being drawn up.  

“I’m curious if the businesses in the community were included in these and if parent groups that are not part of the LGBT community … were involved,” said Caldwell, according to Fox News. 

Democrat proponents of the bill compared those who worried about the effects of the legislation, such as Caldwell, to members of the Ku Klux Klan. 

“And we don’t ask someone passing civil rights legislation to go ask the KKK their opinion,” Democrat state Rep. Yara Zokaie, who serves on the state House Judiciary Committee, said about criticism the bill neglected GOP concerns, according to Fox.   

Democrats control the state House 43-22 and the Senate 23-12. 

The bill now goes to the Senate and if passed will go to Colorado’s Democrat Gov. Jared Polis, who is openly gay, for final approval. 

The LGBTQ community is hoping that the Colorado legislation becomes a standard by which other states implement “coercive control” laws that would pressure the general public into going along with preferred pronouns and other aspects of gender ideology. 

Democrats apparently missed the irony when they named the bill the Kelly Loving Act.  

Loving was a transgender person who was shot and killed by Anderson Lee Aldrich, who claims to be “nonbinary” and uses the pronouns “they/them”. 

Loving was gunned down at Club Q, an LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs, with four other victims in a shooting that also injured 19. 

Some LGBTQ activists refuse to believe Aldrich’s claims of being nonbinary.  

If HB-1312 is passed by Colorado’s Senate and signed by the governor, such refusals would put those people’s parental rights in jeopardy. 

When announcing the sentencing of Aldrich, the Department of Justice (DOJ) under former President Joe Biden scrupulously avoided using any pronoun when referring to the convicted killer. 

Other DOJ sentencing announcements surveyed by the Lion routinely used pronouns to refer to those convicted of crimes.