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,?)… Read more »
No, you’re the N a z i s, and this law if passed will get people killed !!!
Here we go again, they always bring up Nazis or the KKK, because they have nothing.
The KKK had a problem with blacks. This is much different. The so called trans activists support mental illness and family destruction. Reasonable people hate mental illness and family destruction. That hate is valid.
They bring them up because that is their heritage and tradition. The pit from which they spawned. Their ideology is evil and they should not be tolerated
They support pedophilia. Unfortunately, police are unionized and their bosses have told them to stand down when it comes to leftists openly preying on children.
Groomers gonna groom. All this is about is creating another generation of mentally compromised. When you go to these extents to target children, there is no doubt you are a sick and twisted p*do.
And not a single cop will arrest them…