Failing to address students by preferred name would be discrimination under new Colorado bill pushed by youth
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Colorado students prioritized gender and mental health in bills they sent to the state legislature. One bill would force schools to use students' preferred names.
Hannah Ray Lambert is an associate producer/writer with Fox News Digital Originals.
Students from the Colorado Youth Advisory Council (COYAC) voted in late October to send three bills to the state Legislative Council. Two of the three bills involve gender identity, and the third focuses on increasing access to mental health support.
The non-legal name change bill would require schools to use a student's preferred name in class, extracurricular activities, yearbooks, student identification cards and more without requiring a legal name or gender change.
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