Colorado Bill Would Force Public School Staff to Call Children by Preferred Name

In Colorado schools, it may soon count as ‘discrimination’ to call a child by the name on his or her birth certificate.

A school bus waits to pick up children outside an elementary school in Chattanooga, Tenn. on Jan. 19, 2023. Jackson Elliott/The Epoch Times

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.

“A public school or institute charter school shall address a student by the student’s preferred name and use the student’s preferred name in school; during extracurricular activities; and on rosters, attendance lists, yearbooks, student identification cards, and any other unofficial school recording requested by the student without requiring the student to obtain a court-ordered name or gender change or to change the student’s official records,” the bill, HB24-1039, reads.