Colette Bordelon is a reporter with Denver7.
DENVER — The Colorado Senate Education Committee heard passionate testimony late into Monday night from people on both sides of a bill that would make it a discriminatory practice for schools to call students by something that is not their chosen name.
The bill defines a chosen name as any name a student requests to be called that is different from their legal name but reflects their gender identity. “If you fail as a teacher to use the correct name, we don't want the teacher penalized in a punitive way, right," said Winter."We're being aspirational in this bill, and aspirational in how we are treating children and using their names. So, we took some of those punitive measures out, which I agree with.”“This came from the youth of our state saying, 'We want to save our friends' lives. And this is one way to do it that just makes sense,'" said Winter.
Williams said schools should create an environment where all children feel safe and affirmed and believes this bill will help with that goal.
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