HB25-1312: The Kelly Loving Act is a bold piece of pro-trans legislation that was introduced to the Colorado State House this week.

Named after Kelly Loving, a trans woman murdered during the Club Q massacre, this bill is a crucial step in making Colorado a more welcoming space for trans people. It includes a number of important provisions:

• Defining misgendering, deadnaming, and threatening to out a trans person as forms of "coercive control" which may implicate child custody cases
• Prohibiting Colorado courts from applying or enforcing transphobic laws from other states that would threaten the custody of parents who have allowed their children to receive gender-affirming healthcare
• Ensuring that schools that adopt chosen name policies be inclusive of any reason why a child might choose a given name
• Banning gender-segregated dress codes and guaranteeing students the right to abide by any dress code variation
• Defining misgendering and deadnaming as discriminatory acts in the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act and prohibiting them in places of public accommodation

The bill sponsors are State House Representatives Lorena Garcia and Rebekah Stewart and State Senators Chris Kolker and Faith Winter.

You can read the bill here.

This form will provide you with a sample letter which will be sent to 40 members of the Colorado General Assembly. You are able to modify that sample letter as much or as little as you'd like before sending. After completion, there will be some additional resources on testifying for this bill and receiving future updates.