Colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, long has lived and promoted the homosexual lifestyle, while he was a state education regulator, while he was in Congress and in recent years as governor.
Under his tutelage, Democrat majorities in the state House and Senate repeatedly has pushed the often-injurious alternative lifestyle agenda.
With Polis leading, the state repeatedly has attacked the Christian faith, which doesn’t support LGBT schemes, bringing cases against a Christian baker who refused to violate his faith on the topic, against a web designer, against a preschool, and many more.
His agenda actually has cost the taxpayers in the state millions of dollars as the Supreme Court repeatedly has handed Polis’ agenda loss after loss.
But now there’s a new campaign that goes far beyond violating constitutionally protected First Amendment rights. Now lawmakers under Polis’ leadership want to simply cancel parental rights when the state wants their children to be transgender.
Several other states already have moved into such extremism, including the leftist enclave of Minnesota. Montana also has seen a child removed from the home because of the parents’ traditional beliefs, and Washington state isn’t far behind. Even states like Indiana, Montana, Texas, and Arizona have moved into this ideology.
A report at the Federalist explains bluntly that “Colorado’s Democrat state legislators want to force transgenderism on parents, requiring them to affirm their child’s ‘gender identity’ or risk losing custody.”
The report describes how the “radical lawmakers” are pushing for a plan misleadingly labeled, “Concerning Legal Protections for The Dignity of a Minor.”
“In its intended form, the bill requires courts to consider whether parents embrace their child’s ‘gender identity’ when determining custody. Courts must favor parents who support their child’s ‘preferred name and pronouns’ and push their child to receive harmful and damaging ‘transgender’ drugs, hormones, and surgeries,” the report confirms.
— Colorado Republican Party (@cologop) February 16, 2026
While it gives the appearance of focusing on custody issues, the report reveals, it opens the door for courts and leftist and LGBT agenda-driven “child protective services” agents to take children away from parents who adhere to biological reality, as by the science, boys cannot become girls or vice versa.
Actually, being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level.
The agenda promoters cite the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, which the U.S. Supreme Court already has bashed twice in other fights.
The Federalist cited the case of the 14-year-old daughter of Krista and Todd Kolstad in Montana, who was hospitalized with suicidal thoughts.
The state immediately removed her from their custody and moved her to another state for “gender therapy.”
The Federalist pointed out the Colorado’s Dem-majority legislature tried the same scheme last year, but thousands and thousands of residents emailed opposing the radicalism, and 700 showed up to testify against it.
The custody portion of that bill failed, but, the Federalist reported, “they’re back for the other half.”
I’m a gay Republican. And it’s the Democrats’ fault.
— Pursue Truth (@PursueTruth92) February 20, 2026
For the past 15 years, I’ve witnessed the authoritarian destruction of my home state of Colorado under one-party Democrat rule:
- Skyrocketing crime
- Growing homelessness
- Graffiti, trash, and vandalism
- Public drug use
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Erin Lee, of Protect Kids Colorado, said, in the report, “Colorado is passing laws to TAKE CHILDREN AWAY FROM PARENTS who will not trans them. If you won’t tell your child they’re born in the wrong body & sterilize them, the state will take them.”
Sponsors Sens. Katie Wallace and Chris Kolker and Reps. Meg Froelich and Lorena García are pushing the radical ideas.
For now, Wallace obtained the removal of the section requiring courts to base their judgments on “gender identity,” probably because of its extremist nature, but the report said she’s already promised to fight “another day.”
Commented the Federalist, “Colorado’s uber-left legislature has never seen a bad idea it didn’t like.”
