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Colorado doctors shouldn’t be conscripted into gender transition surgery
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Colorado doctors shouldn’t be conscripted into gender transition surgery

By Wayne Laugesen | Commentary, Wayne's Word Colorado will not let a counselor talk. It will force a surgeon to cut. A group of doctors and dentists just filed suit against Colorado in federal court because the state is trying to conscript them. That we need this lawsuit explains how far Colorado has transitioned from obeying federal civil rights protections to thumbing its nose at them. Wayne's Word is a reader-supported publication. To support this work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The Christian Medical & Dental Associations and Button Family Practice in Cañon City say the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act requires medical offices that perform certain surgeries — mastectomies, hysterectomies, and other works of real medicine — to perform those same sur...
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The lobbying blueprint behind Colorado’s parental rights erosion
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The lobbying blueprint behind Colorado’s parental rights erosion

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Editor’s note, April 28, 2026: HB26-1322 passed the House on April 2 and cleared Senate Judiciary on April 27. It is under Senate consideration. HB26-1309 passed House Judiciary on March 31 and is in House Appropriations. In 2019, a team of lawyers at one of the world's largest firms produced a document explaining, in precise detail, how to change the law around children and gender without the public knowing it was happening. That document is now a lens through which Colorado's last three legislative sessions make a different kind of sense. Formally titled "Only Adults? Good Practices in Legal Gender Recognition for Youth," the 65-page report was produced pro bono by Dentons — the world's largest law firm by att...
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After Supreme Court ruling Colorado advances controversial counseling and parental rights bills
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After Supreme Court ruling Colorado advances controversial counseling and parental rights bills

By Colleen Enos | Commentary, Christian Home Educators of Colorado Colorado may go down in history as the most ideologically extreme state in the nation. Between throwing President Trump off the ballot in 2024, persecuting Christian bakers and graphic designers, and banning free speech in religious counseling for minors dealing with sexual identity issues, Colorado is consistently striking out. The decisions made by our legal institutions are continually being overturned by the United States Supreme Court on basic constitutional arguments. Let’s take the state’s radical positions on gender theory. Just two weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 to reverse the Tenth Circuit decision on Colorado’s law banning conversion therapy for minors. The Court held that the Colorado...
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Colorado lawmakers move to sidestep Supreme Court ruling on therapy speech
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Colorado lawmakers move to sidestep Supreme Court ruling on therapy speech

By Jennifer Sey | Commentary, Sey Everything The Colorado legislature is attempting to sidestep the Supreme Court ruling with a new "conversion therapy" lawsuit bill The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on March 31, 2026, in Chiles v. Salazar (8-1 decision, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting) that Colorado’s 2019 ban on “conversion therapy” for minors violates the First Amendment’s free-speech protections as applied to talk therapy. (I wrote about it here.) The Supreme Court’s ruling said the Colorado law was unconstitutional because it constituted “viewpoint discrimination.” The Supreme Court made it clear that talk therapy is protected speech, not “conduct.” But Colorado refuses to accept the Supreme Court’s ruling. Instead, the insane state that I l...
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