Colorado Democrats advanced bills to protect “gender-affirming health care” and to discourage “deadnaming” and “misgendering,” even allowing a parent’s opposition to transgenderism impact child custody decisions.
Both bills received preliminary approval in the Colorado House on Friday, according to a report from Colorado Newsline.
The first bill, known as House Bill 25-1309, would codify “gender-affirming health care treatments in statute” and actively prohibit “a health benefit plan from denying or limiting medically necessary gender-affirming health care.”
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The legislation defines “gender-affirming health care” as any approach used to handle gender dysphoria.
Another bill, known as House Bill 25-1312, would define “deadnaming and misgendering as discriminatory acts” in places of public accommodation under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act.
Many supporters of transgenderism classify “deadnaming” as calling someone by
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