Child Abuse - Dangerous Bills in Colorado

Audio blog - Dangerous Bills in Colorado

2 minute video from Colorado Life Initiative HB 25-1309 & HB 25-1312

For fifty years, we've allowed our most vulnerable children to be legally tortured to death through poison, dismemberment, and scalding and mothers targeted to give up their children to abortionists for experimentation and profit. Apparently, that's not enough money for pharmaceuticals and those addicted to harming children.

Is it abusive to call your son a boy, or your daughter a girl? Or to call your child by the name you gave them? According to some democrat Senators trying to pass HB 25-1312, it could be "child abuse" and grounds for removing your child from your home in Colorado.

Meanwhile, truly abusive behaviors like exposing young children to sexually explicit materials in school libraries and classrooms and confusing children concerning their gender through sex presentations can happen daily in any public classroom or after school program. And now, Colorado wants to take your children away if you try to stop them.

HB25-1312 would allow the state to take away children from parents who affirm their child's natural gender and call their child by the name they gave them. This law could allow the government to target churches, businesses, and all schools, including home schools and Christian schools.

Affirming a child's natural gender and protecting children from dangerous hormones and surgeries would become illegal in Colorado. Businesses and teachers could be fined and targeted for not calling an individual by the correct pronoun. Parents could lose custody of their children over it.

Aside from the emotional trauma the state would oppressively, unfairly, and un-Constitutionally impose on these children, where does the state intend to come up with all these foster families? And the money to pay for all these children who become guardians of the state? This bill does not "protect" children, it endangers them. It is the state taking children from good parents for taxpayers and foster parents to raise and pay medical bills for the rest of their lives.

Sagein Virginia was trafficked by a sexual predator when a judge wouldn't return her to her parents because of allegations of misgendering abuse. Yaeli inCaliforniawas ripped from her loving family to be medically transitioned by the state. She spiraled into depression and took her own life.

HB25-1309 legalizes mutilating children, codifies mutilating children as "healthcare", and guarantees that your insurance premiums pay for it. It also prevents tracking testosterone which is required of all prescriptions to ensure drug safety and patient outcomes. The bill covers "bone remodeling"; facial reconstruction and plastic surgery including lips, forehead, cheek, chin, neck, eye lids; breast implants, breast removal; genital surgeries; hormones and puberty blockers; and hair removal. It defines "medically necessary" if any "healthcare provider" determines they want to get paid for it.

Transgender surgeries mutilate children's bodies including removing skin from children's arms, opening wounds, removing breasts, and castrating young men so they will never be able to have children of their own. Children are too young to make those kinds of decisions that will affect them the rest of their lives. That's why God gave children to parents. Not to government.

These are new surgeries. And children are the proverbial guinea pigs. Many of the youth want to be transitioned back when they reach adulthood. There are surgeries and hormones that they will never be able to reverse. The transgender agenda preys on vulnerable children, causing further mental health and physical health problems. Many of these young people end up committing suicide.

This bill would force every Coloradan to pay for the mental health and surgeries through higher health insurance premiums. Every transgender individual currently costs $34,000 per year, which will probably double to quadruple once insurance companies start paying. These children are guaranteed to need medications and mental health services the rest of their lives.

This bill will force insurance (your health insurance premium) to cover the unhealthy surgeries that will disable youth from having children of their own and require lifelong medications and mental health for the rest of their lives. This bill legally qualifies this horrible, unhealthy, unnatural, and unethical practice of mutilating children as "healthcare" which will make healthcare premiums skyrocket to make more money for those greedy to experiment on children for their own pockets and the pharmaceutical companies that acquire lifelong patients.

In addition to forcing our participation in paying for a lifetime of drugs and rehabilitation for these individuals that will further bankrupt the state, violate our religious liberties, freedom of speech, and parental rights, and the damage that removing children from their Christian parents will cause children, altering a child's natural biology is itself evil, overt rebellion against our Creator, and a violation of childhood.

This kind of facial and genital mutilation on otherwise healthy children's bodies that will prevent these children from ever having children of their own, denying these children a normal childhood, a normal adolescent transition into adulthood, and normal adulthood, and ensuring these children will be dependent on drugs and mental health services the rest of their lives should not be considered "healthcare" but actually child abuse.

Combined with HB 25-1312, state actors can do all this without the parents' consent. It seems the perpetrators of this abuse want those who would protect these children from dangerous drugs and surgeries - like parents, schools, churches, and businesses - out-of-the-way to continue their experimentations and profitable abuse on these already vulnerable children.

It has some pastors outraged, and rightfully so.

Literally, it's in our DNA in every cell of our body whether we are male or female from the moment we are conceived. The oldest manuscript in the world says, "male and female He created them".

So God created mankind in his own image,

in the image of God he created them;

male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27)

Throughout history, male and female have been recognized, even celebrated. Do you remember in school anyone saying, "You know, I think I'm a different gender than my body"? When a baby is born, have you ever heard a doctor say, "Well it LOOKS like a boy, but let's wait to see if they FEEL like a boy!" Since they've only ever been a boy, how would they know if they "feel" like anything else?! 

We must stand and speak for the protection of children from all sexual grooming and surgeries because of the irreparable harm to children and because they are morally evil. It is not the time to look for compromise. For compromise with evil is itself evil. We cannot talk around the edges here. God does not make mistakes. Children only question their gender because adults question their gender. Children learn from adults. Children learn who they are by what adults tell them about themselves. As Christians, this is the time and platform to stop gender mutilation in our state and not allow it into our "healthcare". 

So, who is abusing our kids? The parents who recognize the reality of their child's sex, or the government trying to take them away from those parents to "transition" them into someone they are not? Who lives with the consequences of that? Can we not help children naturally transition from childhood into adulthood, instead?

Woe to those who call evil good

and good evil,

who turn darkness to light

and light to darkness,

who replace bitter with sweet

and sweet with bitter.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes

and clever in their own sight.

Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine

and champions in mixing strong drink,

who acquit the guilty for a bribe

and deprive the innocent of justice.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw,

and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,

so their roots will decay

and their blossoms will blow away like dust;

for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts

and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people;

His hand is raised against them to strike them down.

The mountains quake,

and the corpses lie like refuse in the streets.

(Isaiah 5)

Here is how you find your Senator to tell them to

Vote NO on HB25-1309 and HB25-1312

To contact all Democrat and Republican Senators, here is their contact information.

If you want to make a difference, pay attention to which Colorado Representatives and Senators voted for this measure and hold them accountable. Tell your neighbors and friends not to vote for them. And push for paper ballots and same-day voting so you can get them out of office and get people into office who represent your values and those of your community.

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Faye Barnhart is a Life Affirming Specialist and Co-Founder of the Colorado Life Initiative. She was a women’s advocate for 19 years, served four pregnancy care centers in two states, including CEO of the largest pregnancy care center geographically in the United States, and served in a federal think tank on the co-occurrence of adult and child violence. A prelaw student who interned at the state Capitol and in media, she graduated with honors and pursued master's work in Organizational Leadership and a career in Communications for international ministries. She began in the prolife cause in the 1980’s, raised her children as a single parent, and is now married with an adopted special needs son and enjoys each of her grandchildren, including a grandbaby who needed life-saving surgery at birth. She accepted Christ as her personal Savior and Lord as a small child and continues her walk with the Lord in daily dependence.