April 28, 2025
By Alexis Tarkalson
If the Kelly Loving Act passes the Colorado Senate–which is a Democrat majority–and is signed by their Democrat governor, Jared Polis, it will become harder and harder to speak your own words within the state. Instead, you will find yourself forced to utilize over-indulgent pronouns, placating denials of truth, and obligatory niceties such as handing your child over to the state should you refuse to comply.
The Kelly Loving Act, sponsored by Representatives Garcia and Steward and Senators Winter and Kolker, was named after one of the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in 2016. First submitted to the Colorado House in late March and passed April 6th, the bill now is to be examined by the Senate.
Should the bill become state law, it will set the precedent that it is wholly just to take a child from the home of parents who will not affirm the child’s “chosen” gender. The bill explicitly states in Section 2:
“…when making child custody decisions and determining the best interests of a child for purposes of parenting time, a court shall consider deadnaming, misgendering, or threatening to publish material related to an individual’s gender-affirming health-care services as types of coercive control.”
Should you engage in such “coercive control” such as acknowledging your child to be the child you helped create and raise, that action will heavily influence the court’s decision of whether or not you retain custody of the child. Even if you have the best interest of your child in mind and have looked at the plethora of research showing gender-affirming care to be harmful, you still stand the risk of court-ordered separation from your child.
Additionally slipped into the bill is Section 8 and 9: “define deadnaming and misgendering as discriminatory acts in the “Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act”, and prohibit these discriminatory acts in places of public accommodation.”
This act cannot be pushed through, as it means the beginning of the end of freedom of speech and the embracement of pseudoscience with a packed political agenda. The family sphere is no place to punish gender ideology dissenters, because the ones getting the worst end of the deal are the children. If you live in Colorado, reach out to your state senators and express your opposition to such a bill. Or if you have friends and family living in the state, reach out to them and convince them to take a stand.
