A new law just started requiring Colorado public schools to refer to students by their chosen names.
Days after a new state law began allowing Colorado students to choose their names at school, an effort to require parental notification for such behavior started petitioning for the would make public school staff inform parents if they obtain any information that a student is experiencing"gender incongruence," defined as a difference between the student's biological sex and gender identity.
Gimelshteyn, executive director of the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network, testified against the bill, arguing that"the people of Colorado do not want this. The majority of people in Colorado believe that parents know best for their child." Transgender youth also face higher rates of depression, anxiety and suicide than the general population, research shows. In Colorado, 52 percent of transgender and nonbinary youth reportedly seriously considered suicide in 2022, and 17 percent attempted suicide, according to a.
"Almost on a weekly basis, families are filing incident reports with our organization because school districts are hiding gender transitions of their child from the parent," Gimelshteyn adds. "These kids felt pressured to transition in order to fit in. ... But they regret it, they're not really transgender, and they feel like they don't have a way out."
"Parents like me are kept in the dark and bullied into going along with transition, even when we know it's not right for our children," Lee told legislators while testifying against HB 1039 in October.
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