A Colorado State Representative compared parental rights groups to the KKK for opposing a horrific law that criminalizes parents who disagree with misgendering and deadnaming. Rep. Yara Zokaie was defending that terrible, radical bill.
If parent groups try to become involved and disagree, she calls them hate groups.
She cited the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to back up her illogical argument. The SPLC is an anti-conservative, anti-Christian hate group. SPLC included Moms4Liberty, DefendingEd, RightsParents, and many more on its hate map, which plots conservative groups alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.
That’s her reason for excluding parent groups from the bill discussion.
“Calling parental advocacy groups ‘hate groups’ is just their excuse to marginalize and ignore them while maintaining a pretense of moral superiority,” one Republican told the Daily Signal reporter.
BREAKING
Colorado state Rep. Yara Zokaie doubles down on comparing parental rights groups to the KKK, citing the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Zokaie did so while defending a bill that would define “misgendering” and “deadnaming” as “coercive control” and would require courts… pic.twitter.com/4p3EfWSayL
— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) April 5, 2025
Two House Republicans slammed Zokaie’s remarks.
“Calling parental advocacy groups ‘hate groups’ is just their excuse to marginalize and ignore them while maintaining a pretense of moral superiority,” @COrepKdeGraaf told me.@RepCaldwell said the comparison uses “inflammatory…
— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) April 5, 2025
The SPLC isn’t exactly the most reliable source.
Its list of scandals is quite long. Here’s a sampling (for more, check out my first book, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center”):
1⃣SPLC apologized after branding Ben Carson an “extremist” for… pic.twitter.com/Is1tGnB72H
— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) April 5, 2025
So why silence dissenters?
Oh, probably because the bill is awful.
Seriously, it’s heinously bad.@heritagekristen put it well when she told me HB 1312 “seeks to impose radical gender ideology on Colorado families by penalizing parents for ‘misgendering’ or ‘deadnaming’… pic.twitter.com/TKC7gwpy9z
— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) April 5, 2025
Here’s when SPLC added parental rights groups to the “hate map.” https://t.co/t6tNH36wNr
— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) April 5, 2025
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every parent should take their kids out of public school. and any one who talks to a child about sex should be arrested as a pedophile and shot.
These communist pedophiles need to be placed on their knees and executed publicly.
Where are these idiots ‘bred’???
Good ol’ U S of A.
This typical for Colorado, they always seem to insist on doing everything upside down and backwards. They need to pass a law that would circumvent all of this arguing. Make a law that states that ANY medical professional (surgeon, physician, physician’s asst, RN, Pharmacist) who knowingly alters the gender of a child under the age of (take your pick, 18,21,29,?) will immediately risk losing their medical license as well as potential jail time. And said medical professional upon being requested to do so change a child’s gender will immediately notify CPS of risk the same results as stated above. Now you’ve brought it all to a complete stop. The parents would be forced to take their criminality out of state, which should dissuade most parents.
No, you’re the N a z i s, and this law if passed will get people killed !!!