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Hi Kid: If Parents Are the Enemy, Who Are the Friends?
Featuring: Parents & the KKK, Don't You Dare Deadname & Dads Rage Against the Machine
Hello Hi Kid Fans & Friends! The Colorado legislature lit up national news last week with the consideration of House Bill 1312-a bill which would make “deadnaming” and “misgendering” forms of discrimination under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, which would have profound effects on family courts, school districts, business owners, and families across the state. Parents and parental rights supporters testified by the hundreds against the bill, but ended up being labeled as “hate groups” by House Representative Yara Zokaie. Declaring people with opposing political opinions “the enemy” is actually nothing new and we will expose this technique here. Thank you for your continued support; we are grateful for you. Please encourage others to subscribe to our newsletter HERE and join us on Telegram HERE. To access quicker content, join us on X @HiKidHey. Let’s connect!
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Local Representative Declares Parents the Enemy
Has Colorado unwittingly been sucked into a “transgender community” affordance trap? Let’s look at the story being told about House Bill 1312 and see.
Last Sunday, Colorado’s House of Representatives passed HB-1312 which will have a number of effects including:
Placing parents at risk of losing their children if they refused to “affirm” their child’s imagined identity
Making Colorado a sanctuary state for minor sex-change medical interventions
Forcing schools—including charters—to socially transition kids without parental knowledge
Compelling speech and penalize dissent by criminalizing “misgendering” and “deadnaming”
During a hearing on this bill, Northern Colorado’s Representative Yara Zokaie ridiculed the idea of involving parental rights advocates as stakeholders in discussions about the bill, stating, “A well-stakeholded bill does not need to be discussed with hate groups, and we don’t ask someone passing civil rights legislation to go ask the KKK their opinion.” She later doubled down on the comparison by citing the Southern Poverty Law Center’s classification of parental rights groups such as Moms for Liberty and religious freedom law firms such as Alliance Defending Freedom as “hate groups”.
Zokaie firmly planted herself as a noble friend of the “trans community” while anyone opposing the legislation forcing gender ideology on Coloradans as “hate group” enemies of the “trans community”.
This is an affordance trap. An affordance trap is in place when people are given a false choice between just two limited options-magically ignoring any possible alternatives. Regarding HB-1312, citizens and legislators seem to have been given two options: