HB25-1312: The Kelly Loving Act is a bold piece of pro-trans legislation in the Colorado General Assembly. It has passed the House of Representatives and is currently before the State Senate Judiciary Committee, where it will be heard on Wednesday, April 30th at 1:30pm. We need your help to push the bill across the finish line to win urgently needed protections for trans Coloradans!

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:

• 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 and a fact-sheet here.

This form will provide you with a sample letter which will be sent to every member of the Colorado State Senate as well as the Governor. 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.