Protecting Children Is On the Ballot in Colorado
Colorado has three propositions on the November ballot where voters can take action to protect children.
Propositions 133, 134 and 135, respectively, protect children from sexual predators, keep girls sports for females and boys sports for males, and ban irreversible “transgender” surgeries for minors.
A “Yes” vote on all three initiatives will make Colorado safer for children.
After the Colorado General Assembly voted against all three measures, Protect Kids Colorado coordinated a remarkable campaign to place the propositions on the ballot. The organization worked with other groups like Colorado Parent Advocacy Network and Catholic Vote to collect signatures.
Working on a shoestring budget, more than 3,300 volunteer petition circulators gathered more than 500,000 signatures for the three measures. Hundreds of churches across the state hosted signature-gathering events.
Here’s what they were able to place on the November ballot:
- Proposition 133, “Penalties for Human Trafficking of a Minor,” is also known as “The Children Are Not for Sale Act.” This citizen initiative elevates human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude from a second-class to a first-class felony. It would require a life sentence in prison for human trafficking of a minor – without parole.
- Proposition 134, “Male and Female Participation in School and Collegiate Sports,” defines male and female based on biological sex. It mandates that colleges and K-12 schools designate boys and men’s sports for males and girls and women’s sports for females. This commonsense measure is also known as “The Protect Girls Sports Act.”
- Proposition 135, “Prohibit Surgery on Minors in Response to Perception of Sex or Gender,” prohibits health care professionals from performing “transgender” surgeries on minors with sexual identity confusion. Also known as “The Protect Kids From Irreversible Sex-Change Surgery Act,” this measure keeps state and federal money from being spent on these destructive surgeries.
Here’s more important information to know.
Proposition 133 also expands the definition of trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude to include “knowingly trading anything of monetary value to buy or sell sexual activity with a minor.”
The pro-abortion group Cobalt Advocates opposes this initiative, as it is afraid this expanded definition could be used by abortion opponents to prosecute anyone who helps a minor travel to Colorado to obtain an abortion.
Erin Lee, executive director of Protect Kids Colorado, told The Colorado Sun this was “patently false,” adding, “There is nothing in Proposition 133 that creates a new crime related to abortion.”
She added:
The legislature had an opportunity to strengthen these protections and failed. Now Colorado voters have the opportunity to decide for themselves whether these crimes deserve stronger consequences.
Some voters think the two recent Supreme Court decisions in Little v. Hecox and State of West Virginia v. BPJ already protect girls and women’s sports.
But those decisions only upheld state laws designating girls and women’s sports for females; they did not overturn laws and education policies in states that still allow – or fight to allow – men in women’s sports.
And while the Trump administration’s Department of Justice and Education Department have acted to protect girls and women’s Title IX education rights, states like Colorado still allow boys in girls sports and private spaces.
Proposition 134 is opposed by a coalition of groups called Families, Not Politics. It includes LGBT activist organizations like One Colorado, Transgender Law Center and Inside Out Youth Services. Joining them are radical education and abortion groups, such as the Colorado PTA, the Colorado Education Association, Cobalt Advocates and Rocky Mountains Planned Parenthood, as well as a couple of Unitarian Universalist groups.
Colorado has been at the forefront of promoting false transgender ideology and the destructive “transitioning” of children.
Among other harmful actions, the state’s General Assembly voted to mandate teaching about “LGBT individuals” in all K-12 social studies classes, restricted any beneficial therapy for children with sexual identity confusion, made the state a sanctuary for transgender medical procedures for minors, and allow children as young as 12 to receive therapy without parental knowledge or consent.
While the Department of Health and Human Services and the Justice Department are working to stop irreversible transgender medical procedures, all this work could be reversed with a new administration that espouses transgenderism.
Colorado begins sending out ballots to all registered voters on October 2. Voters may mail in their ballots, or drop them off in ballot boxes or at Voter Service and Polling Centers, where they can also vote in person. The state also has same day registration.
For more information, go to Colorado Elections and Voting.
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