Colorado allows anti-LGBTQ+ group to pursue law outing trans students to parents

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Colorado allows anti-LGBTQ+ group to pursue law outing trans students to parents

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Story by Daniel Villarreal (25 Apr 2024)

Colorado's Supreme Court has said that an anti-LGBTQ+ "parents' rights" group may start collecting signatures to approve Ballot Measure 142, a proposed law that would require schools to out transgender students to their potentially unsupportive parents.

The Colorado Parent Advocacy Network (CPAN) — a group who believe that a "radical agenda" of "indoctrination" in schools has "exploited" children by teaching them "x-rated sex acts" and giving them access to gender-affirming care — wants voters to support a law that would public school representatives to notify a student's parents if their child experiences gender incongruence (that is, identification with a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth.

"We believe this measure is so supportive of our kiddos that do identify as LGBT," Lori Gimelshteyn, CPAN's executive director told KUSA.

"Do people not have anything to do than to interfere in the lives of someone that's different from them?" said Mardi Moore, executive director of Out Boulder County, the local LGBTQ+ advocacy organization. "This is specifically an anti-LGBTQ initiative. The folks behind it have been clear."

A 2022 Trevor Project survey revealed that only 32% of trans and nonbinary youths felt that their home was a supportive and gender-affirming environment.