A proposal in Colorado seeks to allow children to decide their preferred name and force public schools to comply. Refusal to use that name would be deemed discrimination, the bill states.
It’s sponsored by Colorado state Rep. Stephanie Vigil, state Sen. Faith Winter, and state Sen. Janice Marchman, all Democrats.
The measure could allow a child to identify as transgender and change his or her name at school without parental permission.
The legislation’s three sponsors didn’t respond by press time to a request by The Epoch Times for comment.
For parents, bills such as this represent the “complete destruction of parental rights,” local conservative activist Darcy Schoening, who works for the Colorado GOP and as the media director for the El Paso County chapter of Moms for Liberty, told The Epoch Times.
“The state is now trying to remove a parent’s ability to parent their child as they see fit,” she said.
Names are a deeply personal choice for parents, she said, and it’s a parent’s right to name their children on their birth certificates.
“When you can’t even rely on what you gave your child on their birth certificate as a name, you’ve lost a lot more than we realize,” she said.
