Will Colorado Activists and Politicians Thwart People’s Vote on ‘Trans’ Issues?
Coloradans voted November 3 to protect girls sports from male athletes and to protect children from body-mutilating surgeries. But state leaders are ready to “tweak” or overturn the new laws, and LGBT activists are fanning the flames with protests like Denver’s “Trans Rage Action” on November 7.
Proposition 134, the Protect Girls Sports Act, passed by a margin of 51.9% to 48.1%. Proposition 135, the Protect Kids From Irreversible Sex-Change Surgery Act, was approved by a similar margin, 52.2% to 47.8%.
Newly elected Governor Phil Weiser talked even before the election about how to “address” the propositions if they passed, as The Colorado Sun reported:
Weiser, Colorado’s [then] attorney general, said on the campaign trail that propositions 134 and 135 in particular would have to be addressed by the legislature if voters approved them. “The legislature is going to have to fix it and provide a much more human and sound approach,” he said in June.
The Sun added that Weiser “doubled down” on thwarting voters after his election, saying:
We’re going to have to take a look at these anti-trans measures and what adjustments are necessary and appropriate.
Weiser also repeated the lie that children would have to undergo “genital inspections” to comply with the Protect Girls Sports Act, telling Denver’s ABC News affiliate:
I will say, for example, I don’t believe it would be acceptable to Colorado to have every student-athlete have to go through full body examinations or other invasions of privacy.
It’s really important that we work to understand the will of the voters. It’s important that we recognize sometimes, something is passed and it is incomplete. It is not administrable.
“Nonbinary” activist Z Williams – in reality, a female – helped organize “Trans Rage Action”protesting the passage of Propositions 134 and 135.
She repeated the ridiculous canard to the ABC affiliate, saying that Proposition 134 was “too vague” and “could force students to undergo invasive checks to confirm their biological sex”:
That means that all children should be prepared to have to go through this, and that these procedures can be incredibly invasive. Whether it’s a genital exam or the school district taking DNA samples and testing them, that also creates an issue in terms of privacy and just the autonomy of those children.
Passing both measures was truly a grassroots effort by Protect Kids Colorado (PKC), thousands of volunteers and hundreds of churches. PKC Executive Director Erin Lee debunked the myth of “genital exams of children” on X, explaining:
Colorado schools already collect student identification and health records, including birth certificates and other documentation that can establish a student’s sex.
The Rocky Mountain Voice (RMV) also fact-checked Weiser and Williams’ claim, finding it originated from opponents, not from the proposition: “The measure itself contains no such thing.There is no examination in the final text.”
RMV added that this false information came from “Families Not Politics, the committee opposing both measures.” As previously reported by the Daily Citizen, this organization is supported by LGBT, pro-abortion, environmentalist and leftist legal groups.
In its fact check, RMV reported that Families Not Politics also lied about Proposition 135, the Protect Kids From Irreversible Sex-Change Surgery Act. The group supports “transgender” mutilating surgeries for minors, and said the initiative “could block surgeries for teens who need life-saving treatment for certain cancers.”
But the new law only prohibits “medical providers from participating in any surgical procedure that alters a youth’s physical sex characteristics.” It allows surgeries for male circumcision and “a medically verifiable disorder of sex development or treatment for acquired physical or chemical abnormalities.”
Twenty-seven states had passed Save Girls Sports Acts before the election, and there have been no reports of invasive examinations. And 27 states also had passed Help Not Harm laws to protect children from irreversible body-damaging transgender procedures. Again, there have been no reports of children with medical disorders not receiving help.
Colorado’s Democrat-controlled Legislature has passed more than 20 laws in the past six years promoting transgenderism – especially to children – and threatening parental rights related to this issue. No doubt they will try to undermine both measures in the next legislative session.
But PKC and Lee are preparing for battle, as she posted on X:
Anyone who thinks we didn’t know how this was going to play out and don’t have a plan continues to underestimate us.
5,000 volunteers worked [very hard] to make this happen. We won despite no funding and a blue wave. We are the first blue state to pass these protections and the only state to do it with volunteers. The opposition wasted $5.1 million and lost. We have woken up tens of thousands of Coloradans and over a thousand churches.
She added:
If you think everyone who poured into this are all going to suddenly stop fighting, you’re not paying attention.
The impact of how the @ProtectKidsCO team has fundamentally shifted culture, broken the political establishment machine and created a new & massive wave of engaged citizens cannot be overstated.
Please join the Daily Citizen in praying for PKC as the work to protect girls sports and children in Colorado.
Related articles and resources:
Arizona Amendment Would Protect Girls and Women’s Sports and Restrooms
Focus on the Family: Transgender Resources
Missouri Voters Can Protect Life, Stop ‘Transgender’ Procedures for Minors
Nebraska Citizens to Vote on Constitutional Amendment Protecting Girls Sports
Polls: Broad Support for Saving Girls Sports, Ending ‘Transgender’ Procedures for Minors
Protecting Children Is On the Ballot in Colorado
Washington Ballot Measures Protect Girls Sports and Parental Rights
Who Are the Groups Fighting to Mutilate Children and Keep Boys in Girls Sports?
Voters Protect Girls Sports, Children From Body-Mutilating Surgeries
