Sign These Three Ballot Petitions to Protect Kids and Parental Rights in Colorado
Every child deserves safety, fairness and protection from irreversible, damaging medical procedures. This September, Protect Kids Colorado, a coalition of parents, grandparents and concerned citizens, is campaigning to uphold these rights — and they need your help.
Protect Kids Colorado is collecting signatures to put three measures on the ballot next November. The initiatives protect children from sexual predators, keep girls’ sports for girls and ban irreversible sex-change surgeries for minors.
Stop Child Sex Trafficking
Children should never be exploited. Exploitation of children for sex is especially heinous. This measure would impose life in prison without parole for anyone who buys or sells a minor for sex in Colorado.
It’s time to send a clear message — Colorado will not tolerate child sex trafficking.
Petition signatures for this initiative are due in February.
Protect Girls’ Sports
Female athletes deserve dignity, safety and equal opportunity. This citizen initiative protects female athletes by ensuring an even playing field.
The measure requires Colorado athletic teams be specifically designated as male, female or co-ed. It unequivocally declares only biological females will play in female sports.
Signature packets for this initiative are due in February.
Ban Irreversible Transgender Surgeries on Minors
Children should be safeguarded from making irreversible decisions about their reproductive future. This citizen initiative prohibits irreversible sex-change surgeries for anyone under the age of 18.
Petition signatures are due by in February.
From the Leaders of the Ballot Initiative
The co-chairs leading the ballot measure effort are Erin Lee of Protect Kids Colorado, Jennifer Sey, Founder of XX-XY and U.S. National Gymnastics Champion, and Mark “Oz” Geist, the hero credited with saving 25 people in the attack on a U.S. CIA outpost in Benghazi.
The three lay out their reasons for leading the effort in the video below.
In an exclusive interview with Focus on the Family’s Daily Citizen, Erin Lee, Executive Director of Protect Kids Colorado, said she thinks the citizen-initiated ballot measure process could be the tipping point needed to bring change to Colorado.
“I believe the passing of these three measures to protect girls’ sports, prohibit irreversible sex-change surgeries on children, and punish child sex traffickers will start a domino effect of massive change in Colorado and beyond.”
Lee insists that getting involved in this ballet measure process is one small way Coloradans could fundamentally change the state for good.
It’s easy to feel hopeless in this state, but the citizen ballot measure process allows We the People to take matters into our own hands. These measures are a way for everyone who cares about protecting kids and fixing Colorado to just do a little bit, to have conversations with friends and family, and in so doing be part of significant change.
This volunteer signature gathering effort brings us together and reverses radical policies that are actively harming children and families; but most importantly, if enough Coloradans get involved, it has the power to fundamentally shift the culture of this state.
Lee shared this video on X to announce the official launch date of the campaign effort to put these initiatives on the ballot.
Next Steps
Protect Kids Colorado has a goal of collecting 200,000 valid signatures per initiative by this Christmas to qualify for next year’s November ballot.
Focus on the Family supports all three ballot initiatives.
Here are six ways you can help these measures get across the finish line.
- Sign all three petitions.
- Carry a petition and collect signatures.
- Forward this article to other Colorado voters and urge them to sign the petitions.
- Volunteer your time to the cause.
- Donate to Protect Kids Colorado.
- Pray that these initiatives would qualify for the ballot and win next November!
Getting these measures on the ballot is the first step. The next step is winning the election next November.
To learn more about collecting signatures or to find out where you can sign a petition visit: https://www.protectkidscolorado.org/.
