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Christian Doctors Sue Colorado Over Gender Transition Treatment Mandate
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Alliance Defending Freedom, Approved, State

Christian Doctors Sue Colorado Over Gender Transition Treatment Mandate

By Staff | Alliance Defending Freedom ADF attorneys representing Christian healthcare providers file suit against state officials. DENVER – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the Christian Medical & Dental Associations and a Christian medical practice filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging a Colorado law that forces healthcare professionals to participate in so-called gender transition procedures for children and adults, even when doing so violates their religious, ethical, and medical judgment. CMDA is a group of Christian healthcare professionals, with members in Colorado, who practice consistent with their faith. The Button Family Practice P.C. is a family-owned primary care clinic serving patients in a small town in southe...
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‘I’m not running for me’: The everyman challenging Boesenecker in HD53
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State, Top Stories

‘I’m not running for me’: The everyman challenging Boesenecker in HD53

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Daniel Frick did not like politics growing up. He thought it was drama and theater, the same way, he figures, most people do. Then his stepdaughter was hit by a car and left permanently disabled, and the family found itself in what he calls the dark corners of the state, where her case sat forgotten. Now he is a Republican running for Colorado House District 53, a Democratic-held Fort Collins seat. By Frick's telling, the district has been blue since 1986. "I'm not running for me. I'm running for Carissa," Frick said. "I'm fighting for Carissa. That's what this whole campaign is about, getting justice, holding people accountable and changing our state's political system so that other people don't end up like Carissa an...
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Bermúdez: Colorado voters become a test case for Democrats’ transgender long game
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Rocky Mountain Voice, Commentary, State, Top Stories

Bermúdez: Colorado voters become a test case for Democrats’ transgender long game

By Alejandro Bermúdez | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice As national LGBT activists prepare a decade-long campaign to reshape public opinion on transgender issues, Colorado voters will face two major questions this November: whether biological males should compete in female sports and whether minors should undergo transgender-related surgeries. According to The Washington Times, members of the Democratic National Committee’s LGBTQ caucus recently acknowledged that Republicans are preparing to make transgender policies a major issue in the 2026 campaign, especially those involving children, medical interventions and women’s athletics. Rather than retreat, activists are pursuing a longer strategy modeled on the campaign that transformed public opinion on same-sex marriage. ...
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Colorado Gets $615 Million in Meta Child Safety Settlement, but Polis Says Parents Remain Essential
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The Denver Gazette, Approved, State

Colorado Gets $615 Million in Meta Child Safety Settlement, but Polis Says Parents Remain Essential

By Thelma Grimes | The Denver Gazette The parent company of Facebook and Instagram will pay hundreds of millions of dollars to Colorado, part of an $18 billion multistate deal, in which the company also agreed to adopt extensive child-safety changes to its operations. The settlement ended a trial over teen social media addiction and settled claims filed by nearly every state. It resolved a pivotal case years in the making that sought to hold the tech giant accountable for the role its platforms played in allegedly undermining children’s mental health. The effort targeted features designed to hook young people’s attention. If approved by the court, the deal will stop an avalanche of litigation by states against Meta, although the company still faces lawsuits from indivi...
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Enos: As a new school year opens, Colorado tests the limits of parental rights
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Christian Home Educators of Colorado, Approved, Commentary, State

Enos: As a new school year opens, Colorado tests the limits of parental rights

By Colleen Enos | Commentary, Christian Home Educators of Colorado (CHEC) “Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.” This recognizable quote by the character Joe Fox from the famous rom-com You’ve Got Mail reminds us that it is back-to-school season. Your family may have already begun the 2026-27 school year, or you could be holding out for another week or so. If you are brave homeschoolers, your family’s school year will begin after Labor Day.   Numerous families homeschool so that they can infuse their teaching with a Christian worldview. We rightly want our children to understand the world through the lens of our Creator. Our rights as...
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DougCo’s charter proposal protects schools from competition, not choice
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Rocky Mountain Voice, Commentary, Local, Top Stories

DougCo’s charter proposal protects schools from competition, not choice

By Kim Gilmartin | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Douglas County has long been known as a community that values school choice, which is one reason a resolution recently advanced by the Douglas County School District (DCSD) Board of Education deserves much more attention than it has received. The resolution, submitted to the Colorado Association of School Boards (CASB), asks for changes to Colorado’s Charter Schools Act that would give local boards more authority to consider how a new charter school might affect schools that already exist. CASB has now published the proposal as Resolution #3, submitted by the DCSD Board of Education, for consideration at its September Delegate Assembly. The language matters. The resolution would allow local boards to consider the “educa...
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Duffy defends a father’s duty to protect his daughter’s soul over her résumé
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Fox News, Approved, Commentary, National

Duffy defends a father’s duty to protect his daughter’s soul over her résumé

By Sean Duffy | Commentary, Fox News I will never apologize for wanting to protect her soul. That is a father’s sacred duty, whether the left likes it or not. My wife and I have a saying we’ve repeated often over the years to our nine children, "My job is to get you into heaven, not Harvard." This week, I learned that motto is pretty controversial. On Wednesday, I officially launched "The Great America Road Trip" series on YouTube. The show, which follows my family as we discover America, promotes road trips at a time when so many Americans feel disconnected from their country and even from their own families. On one of our stops, my family did what many families do; we visited prospective colleges. We drove to Boston to tour Boston College and Harvard University, the...
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Colorado funded ads telling kids they can get therapy without parental consent
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State, Top Stories

Colorado funded ads telling kids they can get therapy without parental consent

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice A child in Colorado can sign up for state-funded therapy at age 12 without a parent knowing. That is not a loophole. It is how the program is built. The program is called I Matter.  It offers up to six free counseling sessions to any young person 18 or under, or up to 21 for those receiving special-education services, and is delivered mostly by telehealth.  According to a report released this month by the medical advocacy group Do No Harm, the state funded a youth-targeted advertising push built around one message. Youth 12 and older don't need a parent to sign off. A consent waiver written into law Do No Harm reviewed 279 files obtained through the Colorado Open Records Act. Its report covers severa...
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Sanders food-label mandate would raise grocery bills without helping kids, columnist argues
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TownHall.com, Approved, Commentary, National

Sanders food-label mandate would raise grocery bills without helping kids, columnist argues

By Patrice Onwuka | Commentary, Townhall.com AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin I am a mom of three school-aged boys who play multiple sports. They mostly drink water but enjoy juice, lemonade, and even slushies regularly. Like most parents, I am committed to establishing good eating habits for them early in life, but I bristle at the idea of a Washington, D.C. bureaucrat dictating to me what they should drink.  That’s why I am concerned about Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) Childhood Diabetes Reduction Act, supported by Senator Roger Marshall. This federal bill opens the door to heavy-handed regulations on food and beverage labels that promise to make kids healthier but instead will make choices for parents costlier with little or no impact on health outcomes. I support trans...
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Colorado Built a Taxpayer-Funded System to Transition Children While Sidelining Parents
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The Federalist, Approved, State

Colorado Built a Taxpayer-Funded System to Transition Children While Sidelining Parents

By Breccan F. Thies | Commentary, The Federalist Colorado medical students are taught that children as young as 18 months old can ‘distinguish between gender identities,’ and by six years old, ‘develop his or her own gender identity.’ Colorado has been using taxpayer dollars to groom children into believing they are “transgender” and point them to mutilation surgeries, emphasizing that many do not need parental consent. According to a new report from Do No Harm, Colorado spends millions of dollars on government programs, social media influencer campaigns, and medical school curriculums all aimed at convincing children they are a different gender, pointing them toward medicalization, and bullying the parents who do not want to destroy their children. Colorad...
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