Free speech groups dogpile ‘three-time loser’ Colorado in appeals court for misgendering law

The Supreme Court has so frequently used Colorado as a punching bag on free speech issues that George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley thanked “arguably the most anti-free speech state in the union” for its “spectacular legal failures that reaffirmed rather than restricted the First Amendment.”

A trio of appeals to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals seeks to take down one of Colorado’s remaining affronts to the First Amendment, as plaintiffs see it, before the justices can do it themselves: a public accommodations law that prohibits so-called deadnaming, misgendering or otherwise making transgender people feel “unwelcome.”

Barely a year old, HB 25-1312 was immediately challenged by gender-critical clothing brand XX-XY Athletics, Christian bookstore Born Again Books, and a coalition including Colorado doctors, medical advocacy group Do No Harm and parental rights groups Defending Education, Colorado Parent Advocacy Network and Protect Kids Colorado.

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