Colorado State Representative Jarvis Caldwell
Appearances
Morning Wire
Trump’s Tariff Fallout & Military Standards Equalization | 4.4.25
Yes, sir. So House Bill 1312. also known as Legal Protections for Transgender Individuals, just went through the House Judiciary Committee last night. We voted on it at 1 o'clock this morning, and it passed along party-line votes. So it still has to go to the full House for votes, and then it'll have to go over to the Senate.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Tariff Fallout & Military Standards Equalization | 4.4.25
And assuming it passes all of that, then it'll go to the governor's desk.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Tariff Fallout & Military Standards Equalization | 4.4.25
Yeah, so that's probably the most scary thing about this bill is now when you're talking in terms of custody, the misgendering of a child is considered child abuse. That means when a judge is making custody decisions, if one parent is not affirming of the child's trans identity crisis and the other parent is affirming of it, then the preference for custody is going to go to the affirming parent.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Tariff Fallout & Military Standards Equalization | 4.4.25
So this is a question I raised in committee because I've had one of my district attorneys review this section and they are confident that this violates the full faith and credit clause, Article 4, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, which says very directly that states will honor and recognize rulings of other states
Morning Wire
Trump’s Tariff Fallout & Military Standards Equalization | 4.4.25
With Section 3, basically, if one parent were to take a child to the state of Colorado to get gender affirming care, and the state that they came from did a court ruling to bring the child back, Colorado will not recognize it if this law passes.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Tariff Fallout & Military Standards Equalization | 4.4.25
So if you look under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, places of public accommodation is basically anywhere outside your own home. So we're talking all businesses, we're talking public facilities. But if you misgender or, as they call it, deadname someone, you could be in violation of the Anti-Discrimination Act, which could make you civilly liable.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Tariff Fallout & Military Standards Equalization | 4.4.25
and bring you before like an ethics type committee. That's one of the most troubling pieces of this is that this is frankly a first amendment violation. It's a religious violation if you call somebody the wrong name.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Tariff Fallout & Military Standards Equalization | 4.4.25
You know, unfortunately, with our numbers, not at the moment. And so I don't see any roadblocks from here to the governor's desk. So unless our Democrat governor, Jared Polis, decides that this is just it's too much all at once and vetoes it, unless that happens, then I don't see any roadblocks for this going through the legislature. Scary stuff.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Tariff Fallout & Military Standards Equalization | 4.4.25
Yeah, absolutely. I really appreciate it. I'm a big fan of you guys. I listen to you and Ben Shapiro every day. So thank you so much.