If you ever had a doubt that woke leftism is a true cult, this story out of Colorado will put those doubts to rest. HB25-1109 is the kind of lawmaking you only expect to see on the other side of Alice’s looking glass. The bill makes it a crime to “misgender” someone on a death certificate. In other words, the bill would require grieving families, funeral directors, and doctors, to lie about the actual sex of a deceased person on the official government document certifying their death.
LibsOfTikTok brought the news here:
First, a quick lesson on how death certificate preparation works. There are two portions: biographical information, and medical information. The funeral director (or the family, if they complete the task) fills out the biographical portion. This includes things like mom’s maiden name, what industry dad worked in, where the person was born, etc. The medical portion is the spot where the doctor or medical examiner describes the cause and manner of death and notes any diseases or injuries before signing the document and making it legal.
HB25-1109 instructs those preparing the death certificate to mark the sex field—male or female—according to whatever “gender identity” the dead person claimed in a written set of instructions or similar documents. So, if a man named Jack Collins decided he was really a woman named Jackie Desiree DeMoore, the family or funeral director would be required by law to mark his sex as “female.”
This misguided bill pits family members who disagree against each other by allowing subjective claims and opinions to override the actual reality of the dead person’s sex. Worse, the reliability of objective government records of death would be destroyed. Death certificates cannot be used to do medical research on the causes of death and the effects of disease by sex any longer, since no one will be able to trust that a record that shows a female isn’t actually a male.
The bill also:
- Makes “misgendering” a dead person a crime punishable by up to a year in prison, a $1,000 fine, or both. Does a grieving mother who refuses to say her son was her daughter deserve this?
- Forces the state registrar (the official record keeper) to amend death certificates to show the incorrect sex if the deceased’s kin shows a document outlining that person’s so-called “gender identity.” So the state will be rewriting reality and history.
- Makes it illegal for the state registrar to mark the altered certificate as “amended.” This means no one can know that the sex was falsified, and it will be hard or impossible to establish a deceased person’s actual identity.
The reaction on Twitter/X was about what you’d expect. People are over this nonsense.
