Overview

• The Kelly Loving Act, aimed at enhancing protections for transgender individuals, has had its controversial custody-related provision removed after significant public and legislative pushback.
• The amended bill retains measures to classify deadnaming and misgendering as discrimination under Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act.
• Provisions enabling streamlined name and gender-marker changes on official IDs, even for undocumented residents, remain in the bill, raising some public safety concerns from critics.
• Major LGBTQ advocacy groups, including One Colorado and the Gill Foundation, have shifted their support to an 'amend' position, citing legal and policy issues with the current draft.
• Governor Jared Polis has called for further dialogue among lawmakers, advocates, and legal experts to ensure the bill's protections are robust and legally sound before final passage.