I'm going to begin this one by throwing everything on the table, right off the bat, so the gravity of the disgusting story can hit you all at once. Then, we'll get into the details.
Colorado Democrats passed a House bill on Tuesday that would, if it becomes law, classify “misgendering” and “deadnaming” as forms of child abuse, or “coercive control,” which would be considered in child custody disputes.
If a parent refuses to use a child’s "new pronouns" or name, he or she could be found to have committed child abuse by exercising “coercive control,” and therefore could lose custody in divorce proceedings in favor of a more "enlightened" parent.
Insane? To the moral among us, of course. But to the radical left, it makes perfect sense — for multiple reasons.
Broadly speaking, "misgendering" refers to not using an individual's preferred pronoun or honorific, while "deadnaming" means using a so-called "transgender" person's birth name, instead of his or her preferred monikers.
Aside from the obvious and obscene disgust, this is yet another example of the radical left's hellbent efforts to ultimately control everything we think, say, and do — including how we raise our children.
The bill, HB25-1312, subscribes to the belief (falsehood) that a child can identify as or become a different gender than their birth gender, which the left supports as one's “gender identity.”
The bill defines “deadname” as “to purposefully, and with the intent to disregard the individual’s gender identity or gender expression, refer to an individual by their birth name rather than their chosen name.”
The bill defines “misgender” as “to purposefully, and with the intent to disregard the individual’s gender identity or gender expression, refer to an individual using an honorific or pronoun that conflicts with the individual’s gender identity or gender expression.”
Had enough? It gets even sicker.
The bill obscenely uses the “Kelly Loving Act” to do the left's bidding. Here's a snippet:
Section 2 provides that, 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. A court shall consider reports of coercive control when determining the allocation of parental responsibilities in accordance with the best interests of the child.
In other words, the state would require parents to use a gender, name, and pronoun that they believe are harmful to their children.
Au contraire, insists Democrat Rep. Lorena Garcia (D-Denver):
This bill is the bare minimum of what we can do as a state, and the fact that we have to legislate for people to not bully and misgender and deadname people because of whatever insecurities they might have is sad to me. Why can’t we just respect one another? Why can’t we just understand that someone else’s identity has nothing to do with me or you?
While Ms. Garcia is obviously delusional, her reference to "the bare minimum of what we can do as a state" was unintentionally chillingly Orwellian. The state. Yes, the all-powerful state. The left's ultimate dream.
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Law professor, author, and political commentator Jonathan Turley framed the bill in broader perspective in a Thursday column, suggesting the bill could be just the beginning:
Parental rights are emerging as one of the major civil liberties movements of this generation — and one of the greatest conflicts between the right and the left in this country. For example, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled schools can hide a change of gender in young children from their parents.
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One question is whether [the Colorado bill] would be limited to custody proceedings or eventually expand to families generally. If this is deemed abusive or harmful during custody battles, it would also be presumably abusive or harmful outside of such proceedings. The fear is that the underlying conclusions could support a view of a household being abusive and not being in the best interests of the child.
Notably, the Supreme Court will now be considering a Colorado case involving a ban on counselors offering “conversion therapy” for children. Under the state rule, a counselor can lose her license if she agrees to such counseling at the request of her parents.
As I finished this article I was reminded of the viral chant from LGBTQ protest marchs, “We're here, we're queer, we're coming for your children.” I also thought about Karl Marx's prediction that communism would ensure that children would be educated by the state and not by their parents.
While I'm not (yet) suggesting that the radicalized left seeks totalitarianism, I am suggesting that everything from CRT (Critical Race Theory) to Colorado Democrats giving themselves the right (stealing the right from parents) to ensure confused children are called by their new pretend names, or else — is a clear step in that direction.
