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Another year, another effort fails to change law on transgender birth...

Efforts by Democrats to allow transgender Coloradans an easier path to change their birth certificates went by the wayside Monday afternoon for the third...

Transgender Coloradans hope third time’s the charm for change in birth...

For Colorado native Todd Garrity, the realization that his female anatomy did not match his knowledge that he was a boy struck the day...

Littwin: The ugliness of “this ugly incident” is all Trump’s

So what do you do with someone who admits, sort of, to telling an egregious, racist lie by telling even more lies? In the United...

A 10-year-old champions trans rights. Lawmakers let her down.

On her tenth birthday, Jude read Colorado lawmakers an essay she wrote for her Fourth Grade class. She spoke about her experience as a...

Thunderdome 2015: LGBTQ people vs. Christian right

“Thunderdome 2015” is The Colorado Independent's wrap-up series on the 2015 legislative season. For a series overview, check out “Thunderdome 2015: 120 days under the...

Tancredo: Obama held back birth certificate to make Republicans look nuts

Former Colorado Congressman, right-wing icon and talk-radio host Tom Tancredo says he guessed right on the birth certificate. In April of last year on the Alan Colmes radio show, he told listeners President Obama was intentionally delaying release of his birth certificate so that the birther movement would burn hotter and hotter and make the Republican Party and its leaders waffling on the topic appear ridiculous.

‘Birther’ movement finds evidence in Kenya road sign

The so-called birther movement has gained steam again in past weeks as the story of Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin unfolds in capital. Greeley native...

‘Colonel Birther’ Lakin read miranda rights, Pentagon pass revoked

Lieutenant Colonel Terrence Lakin yesterday returned to the Pentagon clinic where he has been stationed but this time he was met by his commander,...

‘Colonel Birther’ spokesperson: Lakin accepts consequences of search for truth

For the first time since declaring his intention to disobey orders to deploy to Afghanistan because he is not convinced Pres. Obama is a...

Denver birtherboards ask The Big Question

From a wingnut corner of the mediasphere, talk radio's Peter Boyles and World Net Daily have teamed up to bring the Denver metro-area...