A proposal in Colorado’s leftist legislature is moving “deadnaming” to an extreme.
That’s the offense, to LGBT promoters, of calling someone by their name when they have chosen another name as part of their agenda for transgenderism.
Actually, according to the science, being male or female is embedded into the human body down to the DNA level and doesn’t change, no matter the chemical or surgical “treatments” that may be employed.
However, a transgender person’s decision to adopt a different name is recognized by many jurisdictions and using the old name, “deadnaming,” actually is an offense in some of those locations.
Now a report in Westword explains how Colorado is planning to take the fight against “deadnaming” to an extreme.
It would demand “accurate” references to a person on a death certificate.
The report explained, “Before Laura MacWaters transitioned, she spent years worrying about what would happen after she died. Would anyone ever know her for the woman she was? How would she be remembered? Would her identity and existence remain invisible forever? Today, MacWaters is proudly out as a transgender woman, but a concern remains: Will her identity be accurately reflected on her death certificate?”
The report noted that Coloradans already can change their birth certificate, driver’s license and state ID to match what they claim to be. That is a male like MacWaters can change “male” references to “female.”
The new plan would also allow a death certificate to identify a person by their gender ideology.
“When a person’s gender identity is stripped from them in their vital records, it is more than a clerical error. It is an act of erasure, a denial of who they are and of their legacy,” MacWaters claimed.
“This bill ensures that the respect we fight for in life will not disappear the moment we pass. I have seen how easy it is for trans people, especially older trans people, to have their identity questioned, dismissed, erased. …I’ve seen the pain of those who feared they would be misgendered, even in death.”
The plan already has been adopted by the state House Health & Human Services Committee.
The move comes in a national discourse for which President Donald Trump has explained the federal government recognizes only male and female.
Agenda promoters claim that they are being targeted because their documents are reflecting now their “sex they were assigned at birth.”
A Democrat in the House, Kyle Brown, said, it’s important to “promote dignity and accuracy in our vital records,” in sponsoring the bill that would mislabel men as women and women as men on their demand.
The report said, “The law would add a field to death certificate forms for a deceased individual’s gender, but it would also keep the current sex field. Sex generally refers to biological characteristics such as chromosomes and genital anatomy. Gender refers to an individual’s social and personal identity, which for some people differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.”
Problems that it would create, however, including that it would compel people to give an answer that they don’t believe.
Paul Saurini told lawmakers in a hearing he lost custody of his child because he referred to her as his daughter, which she is. But she “identifies” as a boy.
“Beyond family members, Republican Representative Brandi Bradley argued the bill violates the rights of funeral directors who file the certificate of death with the state, though the deceased person’s next-of-kin is the one responsible for providing the gender identity information,” the report said.
Democrats in the state insist that “knowingly and willingly” failing to provide the “correct” gender identity of a deceased person would be a crime and offenders should be jailed.
