Colorado parents terrified of ‘totalitarian’ transgenderism bill that could take kids away if they misgender them

Protecting kids proved bipartisan in Colorado as moms reached across the aisle to take a stand against gender ideology legislation threatening custody rights.

Democratic Party lawmakers in Washington, D.C. were hardly alone when it came to advancing the Marxist whims of their alphabet activist supporters. Now, more than two weeks after the Colorado State House took a Sunday to advance gender ideology, a Colorado mother and a California parental rights activist have joined together in an effort to stop so-called “misgendering” and “deadnaming” from breaking families apart.

Monday on Fox News’ “The Faulkner Focus,” Protect Kids Colorado Director Erin Lee and attorney Erin Friday, a lifelong Democrat, joined host Harris Faulkner to decry the “totalitarian” HB 25-1312 which, if signed into law, would give courts cause to take custody from parents who refused to buy into the “preferred” gender identities of their own children.

“This is giving the authority to our state to take our children away if we don’t agree with these gender transitions. And so it’s got huge ramifications for all parents, especially those in custody situations who are fighting with their ex-spouses to stop their children from being medicalized,” said Lee.

“But it opens the door for all parents to potentially have their children forcibly removed by the state if they’re not willing to affirm their child’s mental health distress,” she went on as her social media account promoted Colorado state Rep. Ken deGraaf’s (R) HCR25-1003 which sought to amend the state constitution to protect parents’ rights “to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children.”

GOOD Colorado bill alert! @COrepKdeGraaf is running HCR 25-1003 to clarify parents’ inalienable right to direct the care, education and upbringing of their children in the Colorado constitution. https://t.co/o6UYrj7eZP

Are you mad about HB 1312 attacking your parental… pic.twitter.com/18RIg8KJxg

— Erin for Parental Rights (@Erin4Parents) April 13, 2025

Sharing a background with Lee in being made to confront government overreach with regard to her own decisions in raising her daughter, Friday spoke to the broader implications of the fight against such gender ideology legislation as she told Faulkner, “This bill not only will determine that parents like Erin and I are abusers — both of us had Child Protective Services come to our home when we refused to call our daughters males — but this bill also affects the press and its freedom of the press, and it will require the press to use the chosen name of a child, how they choose it, and any adult.”

Together, the moms co-authored an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal Thursday titled “Colorado’s Totalitarian Transgenderism Bill” that said in part, “A bill under consideration in Colorado … would define parents like us as child abusers … It is an assault on reality and on the foundational freedom that makes the United States a beacon of liberty.”

As they decried Democratic lawmakers who likened them to “Klansmen” with the bill expected to reach Gov. Jared Polis’ (D) desk — after a similar effort in California had been vetoed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) — that same day, faith leaders in Colorado came together under the banner Fight 1312 to inspire others to speak up and stand against attacks on the First Amendment, parental rights and civil liberties by reminding those who’d remained silent or on the sidelines, “You can just do things.”

You can just do things.
Join us https://t.co/b5aBYxrgvK pic.twitter.com/JhNh1OhMbi

— Fight1312 (@fight1312) April 18, 2025

This is exactly what happened in Colorado yesterday

A plurality of pastors across all denominations stood up for Christ to @fight1312

We put our scholastic differences aside to fight for our children and our future in this state

Glory to God alone https://t.co/BJxJUqG5kl pic.twitter.com/M0K14VvlfP

— Matt Johnson (@PastorMatt_J) April 19, 2025

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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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