Signed into law in 2025, HB 25-1309 amends Colorado Revised Statutes § 10-16-104 to mandate that all health insurance plans cover "gender-affirming health care" as a defined essential benefit, explicitly including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgeries (mastectomies, phalloplasties, vaginoplasties, etc.), voice therapy, hair removal, and facial feminization/masculinization—regardless of age or medical necessity—while prohibiting insurers from denying, limiting, or adding cost-sharing based on gender identity. The bill defines "gender-affirming health care" broadly to include any service "used in this subsection (30), unless the context otherwise requires," effectively shielding providers and patients from out-of-state subpoenas, lawsuits, or professional discipline tied to such care, even if originating from states with bans. Sponsored by a massive Democratic supermajority and signed amid national debates over youth transitions, it cements Colorado as a "sanctuary state" for transgender medical interventions, with insurers required to comply starting plan years after January 1, 2026.
Colorado just declared open season on kids’ bodies—ramming through a radical mandate forcing every insurance plan to fund irreversible mutilation, chemical castration, and lifelong hormone dependency for anyone claiming "gender distress," including minors, all under the Orwellian banner of "affirming care." Democrats, drunk on woke dogma, steamrolled biology and parental rights to turn insurers into accomplices in a medical experiment with zero long-term safety data, shielding butchers from accountability while taxpayers and policyholders foot the bill for double mastectomies on teenage girls and puberty blockers that sterilize boys. This isn’t compassion—it’s state-sanctioned child abuse, codified to dodge lawsuits from red states trying to protect their kids, proving Colorado’s elite care more about virtue-signaling to the trans lobby than safeguarding future generations from regret, infertility, and bone density collapse. News flash: you don’t “affirm” confusion with scalpels and syringes—you treat it with therapy, not taxpayer-funded fantasy. Polis and his blue cult just made Colorado Ground Zero for the trans-industrial complex, where profit-driven clinics harvest healthy organs and Big Pharma gets a guaranteed revenue stream. Absolute moral collapse—parents, get your kids out before the state claims them.