A Democrat member of the Colorado House of Representatives justified excluding parental rights groups from discussions about a bill that would remove kids from parents’ custody for behaviors like “misgendering” and “deadnaming.”
She did so by comparing parental rights groups to the Ku Klux Klan in a hearing on Tuesday.
While witnesses in a hearing on House Bill 1312 said they had been working on the legislation for over a year, Jarvis Caldwell, a Republican member of the state House of Representatives, said that he only heard about it Monday.
“I really am curious about how much stakeholdering went on both sides of the issue and if parent groups that are not part of the LGBT community, if they were involved,” he said.
State Rep. Yara Zokaie, a Democrat, loudly condemned the idea of strategizing with parental rights groups on the bill.
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