Colorado mandates pronoun use under new speech law, HB 1312 forces compliance in public spaces, free speech clash erupts over gender identity law signed by Polis

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Colorado Democrats just quietly, and in secret passed a HB 1312 restricting free speech. Use of preferred pr*nouns and selected names based on gender identity is now MANDATORY

“So they’ve just enacted a new law and Governor Jared Polis signed it going into the weekend, HB 1312 is actually a modification of, it’s an amendment to the pre existing Colorado Anti Discrimination act

— What this amendment does is it actually requires any individual in a public accommodation space to use mandatory preferred pr*nouns and selected names of individuals based on gender identity, even if those individuals disagree with the communication of a message that is antithetical to what they believe.

It’s the first time I have seen a state enact a law that is so patently unconstitutional that tries to concretize into the state canon a requirement to violate the First Amendment because not every Coloradan is going to agree with the use of preferred pr*nouns or gender identity related names.”