Lindsay Datko is the founder of Jeffco Kids First. She wants us to know about a bill in front of the state legislature: Non-Legal Name Changes | Colorado General Assembly
From the legislature's website, the bill would:
- Require public schools and institute charter schools (school) to use a student's preferred name, if a preferred name is requested by the student; and
- Deem a school's refusal to use a student's preferred name a form of discrimination.
The bill calls for the creation of a task force to determine, among other things, rules about parental notification.
In a sense this is an interesting bill because it's not about "pronouns" though of course that will be coming next time.