'Misgendering is not a crime!' one of the plaintiffs shouted during a committee hearing. 'Gender is nothing, it means nothing.'
, legislation that would let felons request name changes to conform with their gender identity. While testifying, Goeke and Guggenheim referred to the transgender woman who inspired the bill, Tiara Latrice Kelley, as a man and used her former male name, a practice known as"deadnaming" in the transgender community. on January 30 after her testimony was disrupted for ignoring instructions to speak about the bill and not to misgender Kelley.
“Americans are having a debate about sex, gender and pronouns. The First Amendment protects Americans’ right to express their views on those matters, even if those views might be offensive to some,” said Del Kolde in a statement, a senior attorney at the Institute for Free Speech, the organization behind the lawsuit. “By forcing speakers to adopt a contested ideology, Colorado lawmakers unlawfully privileged one viewpoint over another and silenced dissent.
Kelley was present during the committee hearings to provide her own testimony while she was repeatedly misgendered and deadnamed by Goeke and Guggenheim. " consider adherence to a transgender person’s pronoun preferences, assumed gender, or assumed name to be a form of lying and...consider pronoun rituals, and the concepts of deadnaming and misgendering to be degrading and demeaning to themselves," the lawsuit reads.
Legislative leadership has set a precedent for respecting preferred names and pronouns this session, specifically regarding House Bill 1071.
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