Colorado Bill Would Force Public School Staff to Call Children by Preferred Name

A new Colorado bill aims to allow children to decide their preferred name and public schools to comply. Refusal to use that name would be deemed as discrimination, the bill said. “A public school or institute charter school shall address a student by the student’s preferred name and use the student’s preferred name in school; during extracurricular activities; and on rosters, attendance lists, yearbooks, student identification cards, and any other unofficial school recording requested by the student without requiring the student to obtain a court-ordered name or gender change or to change the student’s official records,” the bill, HB24-1039, reads....