Girls Sports

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.

Related articles and resources:

‘Art Club’ Documentary — One Family’s Escape from Gender Ideology, and the Bigger Trend Sweeping the Nation

Colorado Committee Kills ‘Children Are Not for Sale Bill’

Meet Three Heroes Working to Protect Colorado Children

Nebraska Citizens to Vote on Constitutional Amendment Protecting Girls Sports

One Mom’s Journey Advocating for Children and Parental Rights

‘Protect Kids Colorado’ Qualifies Three Child Safety Ballot Measures for November

‘Save Girls Sports’ on the November Ballot — Here’s How You Can Help

Supreme Court to Hear Title IX Girls Sports Case

Washington State Citizens Fight for Parents’ Rights, Girls Sports

Department of Education Defines ‘Sex’ in Title IX to Mean Male and Female

The U.S. Department of Education rescinded 2024 Title IX regulations that defined “sex discrimination” to include “sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination.” 

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a press release that the restored rule “clears the Biden Administration’s illegal rewrite of Title IX from the Code of Federal Regulations.” 

In April 2024, then-Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announced the addition of “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to Title IX. This redefinition of “sex” led to horrible consequences, as McMahon explained: 

The Biden Administration’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) pushed schools across the country to illegally allow males to intrude into women’s sports and intimate facilities, and it investigated school staff for using incorrect pronouns or failing to ask students to declare a preferred gender. The Trump Administration has rescinded these agreements. 

Women’s sports advocate Jennifer Sey posted about the Education Department’s actions on X, affirming Title IX says nothing about sexual orientation or gender identity but specifically designed to protect girls and women. 

McMahon said that restoring Title IX to prohibit “sex discrimination” restored “the commonsense language promulgated in the first Trump Administration, which we have been enforcing since the first days of the Administration.” 

The secretary was referencing a number of actions the administration has taken to protect girls and women’s educational opportunities, including their participation in women’s-only sports and female restrooms, locker rooms and showers. 

According to her press release, these actions include: 

• “Returning Enforcement to Biological Reality: Within its first two weeks of being in office, the Department returned to enforcing the first Trump Administration’s 2020 Title IX rule, reversing the Biden Administration’s illegal 2024 re-write. This once again aligns Title IX’s sex-based protections with biological reality, not ideological fantasy.  

• “Securing Resolution Agreements with Higher Education Institutions: The Department signed resolution agreements, including with the University of Pennsylvania and Wagner College, which obligated them to re-establish sex-separated sports and intimate facilities, restore to females their titles misappropriated by male athletes, and apologize to female athletes for their prior policies allowing sex discrimination.    

• “Creating Title IX Special Investigations Team: The Department partnered with the U.S. Department of Justice to create the Title IX Special Investigations Team (Title IX SIT) consisting of expert attorneys and investigators to ensure consistent investigations and expeditious enforcement for Title IX violations.” (Their emphasis.)

That partnership with the DOJ has led to multiple investigations into states, schools and districts that violated Title IX by allowing males into girls and women’s sports and private spaces. 

Charges and lawsuits have been filed against many of these, as the Daily Citizen has reported, including: five districts in Northern Virginia, 36 school districts in Illinois, the California Department of Education, San Jose State and Minnesota. 

In addition to these actions, the press release noted eight different courts, including two federalcourts, had ruled against including “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” in Title IX. 

McMahon explained that the recission of the 2024 rule followed these court directives, as well as Congress’ intent in passing Title IX. 

Thanks to today’s action, the published Title IX regulations faithfully reflects court orders and Congressional intent—reducing confusion for parents, students, and educational institutions. 

We will continue to relentlessly champion equal opportunity for all Americans and hold accountable any school or college that violates the rights, privacy, or athletic opportunities of our women and girls.

Related articles and resources: 

Blockbuster Supreme Court Ruling: Girls Sports Are for Girls

Department of Education Redefines ‘Sex’ in Title IX to Include ‘Sexual Orientation’ and ‘Gender Identity’

DOE Holds Hearings on Pushing ‘Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity’ in Education

DOJ Investigates Illinois School Districts for Violating Parental Rights With LGBT Content

Ed Dept. Finds Northern Virginia School Districts Violated Title IX

Ed Dept. Finds San José State Violated Title IX With Male Athlete in Women’s Volleyball

Feds Open Yet Another Title IX Investigation Into Loudoun County Schools

Feds Sue California Department of Education, Interscholastic Federation For ‘Illegal Sex Discrimination’

Minnesota Allowed Boys to Compete on Six Girls Teams, Federal Investigation

New Biden Admin. Rule Lets Men into Women’s Locker Rooms, Bathrooms and Sports

Nebraska Citizens to Vote on Constitutional Amendment Protecting Girls Sports

Nebraskans will consider a constitutional amendment to protect girls sports in the 2026 midterm election, which will be held on November 3.

Through the initiative process, Nebraska citizens submitted over 211,000 signatures to get the “Fairness for Girls” Amendment added to the 2026 general election ballot.

A ballot initiative is a process that allows citizens to propose statutes or constitutional amendments to place on the ballot after gaining a requisite number of signatures. Citizens then vote on the measures in a regularly scheduled election.

Twenty-six states allow for this type of “direct democracy,” where a majority of voters can directly change the law in their states, in addition to the usual process of state and federal elected representatives proposing and passing laws.

The initiative, also called the “Nebraska Sex Requirement for School and College Sports Amendment,” would add the following text to the state constitution:

(1) Schools must expressly designate each athletic team or sport as one of the following based on biological sex: (a) Males, men, or boys; (b) females, women, or girls; or (c) coed or mixed.
(2) Athletic teams or sports designated for females, women, or girls pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall not be open to students of the male sex.

If approved, it would establish constitutional protections for sex-separate athletics, ensuring female athletes receive equal access to athletic opportunities. The measure would prohibit “transgender”-identified males from competing in girls sports.

While Nebraska has a law protecting girls sports, those safeguards are only statutory, meaning they can be weakened, repealed or overturned. The Fairness for Girls Amendment would ensure girls sports are protected by the Nebraska Constitution.

Fairness for Girls, the leading campaign supporting the initiative, says the measure would:

  • Protect Fairness in Girls Sports: Allowing men to compete in girls sports destroys a level playing field and undermines fairness for our daughters.
  • Protect Girls’ Opportunities: Over 900 medals have been awarded to biological males competing in girls sports.
  • Protect Girls’ Physical Safety: Protecting girls from preventable, potentially life-altering injuries is not controversial. It’s common sense.

The Nebraska Family Alliance (NFA), a Focus on the Family-allied organization, strongly supports this Amendment. NFA Advocacy & Engagement Coordinator Elizabeth Nunnally said,

Men and women have distinct biological differences, and girls sports protections are common-sense. Equal opportunity, privacy, and safety are fundamental rights of every Nebraskan, and Fairness for Girls will establish these safeguards for girls sports in the Nebraska Constitution once and for all.

The organization added, “Nebraska has the opportunity in November to make history and become the first state to adopt these protections through a voter-led constitutional amendment.”

Citizens living in Nebraska can help ensure girls sports are protected for generations to come by voting “Yes” on the state’s Fairness for Girls Amendment on November 3. You can visit the Nebraska secretary of state’s website to learn more about early voting.

All citizens have additional opportunities to promote life, religious freedom, free speech, the God-given reality of biological sex, marriage and children’s rights this election season. In the 2026 midterm election, please support candidates who most align with your Christian values.

Related articles and resources:

Christians Must Get Out to Vote This November

Why Should I Vote?

Understanding the Importance of Voting

Every Single Vote Matters

5 Easy Ways Christians Can Get Involved in Politics

Are You Registered To Vote? If Not, Today is the Day to Do It.

Vermont Ballot Measure Would Enshrine ‘Gender Identity’ Into Constitution

Photo from Shutterstock.

Judge Dismisses DOJ’s Lawsuit Against California’s Policy Allowing Boys in Girls Sports

A federal judge has dismissed the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging California’s policy permitting biological males to compete in girls sports.

U.S. District Judge Cynthia Valenzuela threw out the case against California on Monday, as the DOJ is considering an appeal.

“We are disappointed by the Court’s order and remain committed to enforcing President Trump’s agenda of preventing boys from playing in girls’ sports,” the DOJ said after the ruling. A department spokesperson said the DOJ is “evaluating our options for appeal.”

Judge Valenzuela was nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California by former President Joseph R. Biden in 2024.

The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) allows students to compete in sports and use locker rooms based on their “gender identity” rather than their sex.

AB Hernandez, a boy who attempts to live as a girl, won two state titles at the California girls track and field championships earlier this year, taking first place in the girls high jump and triple jump, and third place in the girls long jump.

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon filed a complaint in the district court on July 9, 2025, alleging CIF’s policy violates Title IX, which ensures both sexes have an equal opportunity to participate in school athletic programs.

“California’s … discriminatory policies and practices ignore undeniable biological differences between boys and girls, in favor of an amorphous ‘gender identity,’” the lawsuit alleged. “The results of these illegal policies are stark: girls are displaced from podiums, denied awards, and miss out on critical visibility for college scholarships and recognition.”

California’s policy threatens Title IX, the complaint stated, saying, “It erodes the integrity of girls’ sports, diminishes their competitive experience, and undermines the very purpose of Title IX: to provide equal access to education benefits, including interscholastic athletics.”

The DOJ has been attempting to enforce President Trump’s executive order “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” which he signed in February 2025, directing the secretary of education to “take all appropriate action to affirmatively protect all-female athletic opportunities and all-female locker rooms” and prioritize enforcement against schools that violate the policy.

In April 2025, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education created a Title IX Special Investigations Team to investigate and prosecute schools, states and athletic conferences that allow boys in girls sports.

The DOJ has also filed lawsuits against Maine and Minnesota for violating Title IX, and the DOJ’s Special Investigations Team has initiated dozens of investigations into school districts for discriminating against girls and women, the Daily Citizen has previously reported.

In this case, you might be wondering why California is still fighting to let boys compete in girls sports after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this year states can protect girls and women’s sports.

The Court decided in State of West Virginia v. BPJ and Little v. Hecox, in which “transgender”-identified male athletes challenged West Virginia and Idaho laws protecting girls sports, that the 14th Amendment and Title IX permit states to enact such laws.

However, the Court did not decide whether Title IX requires states to do so. The Court could consider that in a future case, perhaps even in this case if it’s eventually appealed to the high Court.

Any appeal filed will next be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which hears appeals from Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.

Once widely seen as the most liberal federal appellate court, the 9th Circuit has become increasingly conservative thanks to 10 appointments by President Donald J. Trump in his first term, and an additional appointment in his second term. President Biden nominated eight judges to the 9th Circuit who were confirmed in his single term.

The court now has 13 judges nominated by Republican presidents and 16 judges nominated by Democrat presidents.

After the judge’s decision, Dhillon intimated the agency would imminently file an appeal.

 “California judge …,” she wrote on X. “Stay tuned.”

The case is United States of America v. California Interscholastic Federation.

Related articles and resources:

California Will Continue to Allow ‘Transgender’-Identified Male Athletes in Girls Sports

Clarence Thomas: There are Only Two, Unchangeable Sexes

Blockbuster Supreme Court Ruling: Girls Sports Are for Girls

Male Athlete Wins Three Girls California Track and Field Titles — Again

Female Athletes Beg California Interscholastic Federation to Keep Boys Out of Girls Sports and Locker Rooms

DOJ Lawsuit Describes California Department of Education’s Infuriating Treatment of Girls

Feds Sue California Department of Education, Interscholastic Federation For ‘Illegal Sex Discrimination’

Photo from Getty Images.

WNBA Issues Non-Apology After Mother and Daughter Were Told to Cover XX-XY Shirts

The WNBA continues to make headlines over its unwillingness to stand for women’s athletics. 

The most recent controversy occurred when the security guard at a game between the Indiana Fever and the Atlanta Dream told Kasey Thomason and her daughter, Annie, to cover up their “offensive” XX-XY Athletics t-shirts – or be removed from the game.

The league compounded its wrongdoing with this tepid statement:

The WNBA is aware of interactions at last night’s game in Atlanta in which fans were asked by league security to cover their shirts. This should not have happened.

With this lame non-apology, the WNBA takes no ownership of the incident. The league does not apologize directly to the Thomasons or explain how it will stop similar incidents from happening again. 

The Thomasons paid $1,000 apiece for tickets near courtside at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena. Both wore shirts with the XX-XY logo on the front, while Annie’s also said, “For the girls,” on the back.

XX-XY Athletics was founded by Jennifer Sey, an elite gymnast, seven-time member of the U.S. Women’s National Gymnastics Team and the U.S. Women’s All-Around National Champion in 1986.

Sey explains the company’s mission on the XX-XY website: 

We are unapologetic about our goal. We are here to protect women’s sports and spaces.
Women deserve the opportunities that sports and single sex spaces provide. Sex matters. It is the single biggest determinant of athletic performance. It is unfair and dangerous to allow males (XY) to compete in girls and women’s (XX) sports.

Social media content creator Adam Francisco reported the Thomasons attended the game to support Indiana Fever’s Sophie Cunningham, who has been outspoken in her support for girls and women’s sports. 

Mother and daughter wore their shirts the entire game until a security guard approached them halfway through a five-minute overtime, as Fox News explained: 

The security guard told them that a fan(s) were offended by their shirts, so they had the choice to wear the provided Atlanta Dream “Wellness & Health Night” shirts, or they would be escorted out of the building.
To this, Kasey responded by saying, “Biology and science is offensive?”, before reluctantly agreeing to put the shirts on so they didn’t miss the last two minutes of overtime, where the Indiana Fever eventually secured a 95-91 victory.

Francisco videotaped the Thomasons after the game and posted the incident on X, writing: 

Earlier in the game, a woman wearing a “Protect Trans Rights” shirt was prominently featured on the Jumbotron. Only after receiving that stadium spotlight was she also told to cover her shirt.

Kasey supported the other woman’s right to wear a “transgender” t-shirt, saying she shouldn’t have had to cover up her message, either. 

The WNBA has completely mishandled the issue of males in female sports and private spaces. The WNBA’s official policy reserves the league for women: “Only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.”

However, the policy does not define “women.” 

A WNBA task force of team presidents and general managers met to discuss males who claim to be women playing women’s basketball, but the league could not clarify its eligibility rules. 

It shouldn’t be that difficult. Women and men are different, and we acknowledge those differences with separate sport teams, locker rooms, restrooms and showers. 

Related articles and resources: 

Clay Travis Calls the WNBA’s Bluff With $10 Million Challenge

Enes Kanter Freedom Declares for WNBA Draft Amid ‘Trans’ Controversy

The Impending Extinction of Women’s Sports – Jennifer Sey | ReFOCUS

Seattle Storm Co-Owner Suspended After Cursing at Sophie Cunningham Supporters

The WNBA’s Culture War Has Arrived

WNBA’s Sophie Cunningham Stands Firm in Face of Criticism