This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Democrats in the state of Colorado are working hard to make it a crime to call a man by his name. Or call a woman by her name.
Instead, they want to demand that men who say they are women, or vice versa, be addressed by a new name they have chosen.
In fact, they want to make it a state "discrimination" offense to use the person's legal name.
It's all part of the radical transgender ideology Democrats in the state have promoted, a campaign that aligned with Joe Biden's official practice in the White House to promote transgenderism worldwide. President Donald Trump reversed that upon taking office, deciding that the U.S. government recognizes only two genders, male and female.
A report in the Washington Examiner explains some Democrats in Colorado's legislature have proposed a law to require courts to consider "deadnaming" and "misgendering" in court battles regarding child custody.
State Sens. Faith Winter and Chris Kolker and state Reps. Lorena Garcia and Rebekah Stewart, all Democrats, are pushing for their social agenda in the plan.
"The legislation claims to strengthen legal protections for transgender people, including adding to prior laws that it is 'discriminatory practice and unlawful to, with specific intent to discriminate, publish materials that deadname or misgender an individual' in places of public accommodation."
So-called deadnaming is using a person's legal name instead of a different moniker they have chosen.
The Democrats also would order courts to take into account "deadnaming, misgendering, or threatening to publish material related to an individual's gender-affirming health-care services as types of coercive control."
They want to ban courts from "applying or giving any force or effect to another state's law that authorizes a state agency to remove a child from the child's parent or guardian because the parent or guardian allowed the child to receive gender-affirming health-care services."
The leftist Democrats in California, the Examiner report noted, already adopted similar transgender ideology demands, but Gov. Gavin Newsom, also a Democrat, vetoed that plan.
