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Colorado Youth Council Pushes For Gender Affirming Laws

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Colorado's youth want lawmakers to create a more gender-affirming atmosphere in schools and health care settings. The Colorado Youth Advisory Council — which includes students aged 14-19 from across the state and lawmakers — sent this message as it recently advanced two draft bills for lawmakers to possibly consider in the coming legislative session. One measure would require public schools to address students by their preferred name without requiring a name or gender change. A second bill would provide state grants to health providers to get trained in gender-affirming care and create a task force to study obstacles for transgender people in Colorado. The Democratic-controlled Legislature in Colorado has advanced a handful of measures to expand transgender rights and protections in recent years, including requiring new public buildings to install bathrooms for all genders, prohibiting conversion therapy for minors, and making it easier for people to change genders on official documents. However, Republican state lawmakers on the panel objected to the name requirements in school, suggesting it amounts to lying to parents who won't know about their child's other name. Other legislation drafted by the youth council, including bills to create an ethnic studies commission and address gun violence in schools, did not advance.

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  • Adrianna Tender

    A transgender advocate and health care practitioner. She has extensive education and experience in HIV prevention and health care that relates to transgender individuals. She currently works as the Program Coordinator with Transinclusive Group and is the owner of Tender Loving Care Trans Mentoring. She received the Bishop SF Makalani Mahee Transgender Advocate Award in 2019 and has received many other awards. She serves on the National Board of Governors of the Human Rights Campaign and is on the Board of Directors for the Dolphin Democrats and Black LGBTQ Liberation. She is a member of several civic and political organizations like NAACP, and the Florida LGBTQ Democratic Caucus, and attends Antioch Missionary Baptist Church.

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