I thought that states like Washington, California, New York, etc. were the worst blue states, but Colorado is really getting nasty. If you asked me what my nightmare is as a taxpayer, it would be having my tax money used for immoral things. I fled my home country in part because they were making me pay for abortions, IVF and sex-changes. If you’re in Colorado, it might be time to leave.

Here’s the story from The Federalist:

Democrats in the Colorado General Assembly bulldozed their way forward to require health insurance to cover genital mutilation for children, kidnap children from parents who do not “affirm” a transgender claim, and make sure the state is the biggest taxpayer-funded abortion enterprise in the country.

Left-wing lawmakers in the state House are advancing two bills related to “transgender” identity, one of which forces healthcare providers to cover everything from chemical castration to genital mutilation in their plans, while the other would codify “misgendering” as child abuse with the ability to strip custody rights from parents who do not “affirm.”

In the Senate, one bill codifies taxpayer-funded abortions, and the other one expands Colorado’s ability to mail abortion pills out-of-state to kill even more babies.

They’re also preventing Republicans from debating the legislation:

Democrats in the House started the weekend by using parliamentary tools to restrict Republicans from being able to debate or object to the bill to only two hours.

One Republican legislator said “The most egregious moment was when they prevented any debate on HB25-1312. This bill enshrines that if you are having a custody dispute and your child is suffering from gender identity delusions, not affirming those delusions are considered child abuse and grounds for losing custody”.

Remember that article I posted earlier in the week, about how white secular leftist women were choosing to trans their kids against their husbands wishes? Well, it turns out that this is being done intentionally in order to get custody of the kids. How? Well, the leftist parent pressures the child into gender dysphoria, and then uses that as an excuse to keep the moral parent from getting custody. Hello, big child support money.

The article explains:

As The Federalist reported, HB25-1312 would allow Colorado to become a “transition” mill for parents who want to use the “transgender” claims of their children as a weapon in custody battles. As one parent advocate in the Colorado described it, the bill allows “state-enabled kidnapping.”

The bill would require that “a court shall consider deadnaming, misgendering, or threatening to publish material related to an individual’s gender-affirming health-care services as types of coercive control,” meaning that any parent who does not want to see their child mutilated.

And taxpayers will be paying for it – all of it:

The tandem “transgender” bill in the House, HB25-1309, requires that all health insurance plans sold in the state cover medical gender transition interventions.

[…]SB25-183…  repeals a constitutional amendment that prohibited the use of taxpayer dollars on abortions and adds one, recognizing the right to an abortion and prohibiting Colorado state and local governments from denying, impeding, or discriminating against the exercise of that right, including prohibiting health insurance companies from excluding coverage for abortion,” a bill summary states.

Remember, transing a kid means a lifetime of drug use and surgeries to keep it going. So, if you’re paying for health insurance, then you’ll be paying for people to trans their kids and for abortions. Your health premiums will go up, because more stuff is being covered. Disgusting. The people who are living clean are subsidizing the people who are living recklessly. Can you say “moral hazard”?

And here’s how opposition was characterized by the Democrats:

The Democrats behind the bill are crazed, too, with state Rep. Yara Zokaie comparing parental rights groups opposed to the destructive bill to the Ku Klux Klan, saying, “A well-stakeholded bill does not need to be discussed with hate groups, and we don’t ask someone passing civil rights legislation to go ask the KKK their opinion.”

One of the divorce horror stories I blogged about recently was out of Colorado, and there, the secular leftist wife did seem to be using lack of support for transgenderism to wrestly custody (and those yummy child support dollars) away from her ex-husband. This legislation will definitely lead to more of that, which is why men need to take responsibility for choosing women who have demonstrated their morals and religion through a sustained pattern of action, over many years.

Daily Signal notes:

Critics warn that a bill like this could make stories like that of California father Jeff Younger more likely in Colorado. Younger is battling in court to prevent his ex-wife from putting his son on experimental treatments to make him appear female.

“It prejudices the court by saying any non-affirmation of gender, anything short of actual celebration of the genital mutilation and the hormone therapy, the conversion, is discriminatory and is coercive control,” state Rep. Ken DeGraaf, a Republican, told The Daily Signal in an interview Friday. “It just prejudices the court in this civil arena.”

“This bill puts one parent waste-deep in a hole for the other one to start throwing stones at them,” he added.

Caldwell, the Republican who asked about stakeholders, told The Daily Signal that the bill creates a “legal imbalance that could lead to serious consequences for parents who do not affirm their child’s gender dysphoria.”

“I believe the ultimate intention of this bill is to make it impossible for a parent to get their child help when the child is gender confused by declaring such help as child abuse,” he added.

Personally, if you are a conservative man, you need to be in Tennessee, Oklahoma, Alabama and other states that are socially conservative. You do not want to be paying taxes and health insurance premiums to cover these sorts of behaviors. Part of being an intelligent man is to take action to achieve results. You don’t choose to live in a blue state, and then cry victim when they smash your finances and your marriage and ruin your kids.