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Lawmakers also introduced House Bill 25-1312, known as the Kelly Loving Act, which proposes sweeping protections across education, family law and public accommodations. “This bill expands protections for trans workers, parents, students, and children in Colorado,” the trans-led legal nonprofit Bread and Roses Legal Center said on Instagram.

Last summer, the organization partnered with legislators to introduce the bill and began consulting transgender Coloradans about what they needed from a “trans bill of rights.” Over 500 transgender residents participated in the survey.

The bill “is named after Kelly Loving, an amazing trans community member and advocate stolen from us on the eve of Trans Day of Remembrance at Club Q,” the organization said.

“Kelly came to Colorado for her birthday and was thinking about moving here. She saw the state as an opportunity and went to Club Q and was killed by a mass shooting. We grew very close to her family. I remember her sister saying the most important thing we can do for Kelly is make sure that no one goes through what she’s gone through ever and she is remembered not just for how she died but how she lived,” said Z Williams, director of client support and operations at Bread and Roses Legal Center.

The bill would classify misgendering, deadnaming, and threats to disclose someone’s gender-affirming care as forms of coercive control in custody proceedings. It would also prohibit Colorado courts from enforcing out-of-state laws that seek to punish families for supporting a child’s access to gender-affirming care.

The bill would also make schools safer for trans students. It mandates that schools accommodate any reason a student may use a name different from their legal name and requires all dress codes to be gender-neutral and inclusive. The bill requires public agencies to provide space for both legal and chosen names on forms — and once a chosen name is listed, it must be used on all future documentation. Additionally, the legislation would amend the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act to explicitly define misgendering and deadnaming as discriminatory acts.

“My hope is that it is history making,” Williams told a local news network in August. “It’s actually changing the dynamics for trans people and their everyday lives.”

The bill builds on momentum from last year, when the Bread and Roses Legal Center drafted and lobbied for the passage of “Tiara’s Law,” which clarified that seeking a name change to align with one’s gender identity constitutes “good cause” under state law. Although transgender people with felony records were legally allowed to change their names in Colorado, they continued to face stigma and systemic barriers that made the process especially challenging, issues that this law addressed.

This obviously isn't close to ending the genocide and we'll have to see if cis even care of course.