The lobbying blueprint behind Colorado’s parental rights erosion
By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice
Editor’s note, April 28, 2026: HB26-1322 passed the House on April 2 and cleared Senate Judiciary on April 27. It is under Senate consideration. HB26-1309 passed House Judiciary on March 31 and is in House Appropriations.
In 2019, a team of lawyers at one of the world's largest firms produced a document explaining, in precise detail, how to change the law around children and gender without the public knowing it was happening.
That document is now a lens through which Colorado's last three legislative sessions make a different kind of sense.
Formally titled "Only Adults? Good Practices in Legal Gender Recognition for Youth," the 65-page report was produced pro bono by Dentons — the world's largest law firm by att...

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