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The Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Last month, the Governor of Colorado signed a bill into law that legally requires teachers to call children

whatever they want to be called regardless of their legal name and without parental

permission. Not only does the language of the law cement so-called gender identity as a legitimate category,

it defines it as a child's innate sense of gender without any reference at all to his or her biological

reality.

The law also specifies that charter schools,

along with all public schools, have to comply and that the law applies to all

employees, all educators, even contractors during the school day and in any extracurricular activities.

And anyone, get this, who does not comply, is according to the law, guilty of discrimination.

Now the law does not include criteria for a name demanded by a student to be binding.

It's not even limited to just pronouns.

So in theory, a student could identify as her on Monday, Zir on Tuesday,

cat on Wednesday and Thursday,

and then he at the game on Friday night.

If a teacher cannot keep up with the demands

and calls a student by the wrong name,

well they would be guilty of something

kind of like using a racial

slur for a student who's of ethnic minority. Now perhaps the worst part of the bill, which is

saying a lot, is the absence of any mention at all of parents. Nowhere does the

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