Colorado town’s ban on topless women put on hold by judge
DENVER — A Colorado judge has blocked a college town’s law against women going topless, saying the law is likely unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson said Tuesday that Fort Collins’ ordinance is based on gender discrimination and issued an injunction against its enforcement.
Fort Collins’ indecency code makes it a crime for women but not men to show their nipples.
The law “perpetuates a stereotype engrained in our society that female breasts are primarily objects of sexual desire, whereas male breasts are not,” Jackson wrote.