Colorado’s only transgender lawmaker called out what she described as dangerous rhetoric by Republican House members Friday, one day after GOP lawmakers sought to inject anti-trans language into a resolution about women’s rights.
, which LGBT groups have decried as thinly veiled attacks on trans people.
“Today I’m standing up for myself and the people like me, for kids who are like me, for your constituents who are like me who you refuse to acknowledge,” she told the House on Friday. “I would like to see ways we can disagree without being disrespectful. I would like to see us able to disagree with each other and look each other in the eyes when we say these things.”
She said she and other Democrats were “dumbstruck” by what happened Thursday. Some of her colleagues came to Titone’s seat and stood behind her as the Republicans spoke. After Holtorf began talking about sex chromosomes, House Speaker Julie McCluskie reprimanded him. When he did so again later, he was warned to “tread very lightly.”
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