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Oct 02 2026

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.

The Children Are Not for Sale Act

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.

The Protect Girls Sports Act

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.

The Protect Kids From Irreversible Sex-Change Surgery Act

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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Oct 01 2026

New CDC Report: Teen Sexual LGB Identity Drops Dramatically

San Diego State University social psychologist Jean Twenge has been tracking how trans ideology is losing it’s incredible fast-rising grip on teens, reported here and here. She added to her research conclusions recently, looking specifically at sexual identity and behavior and American highschoolers. Her findings are certainly worth digging into.

She explains, in her headline, “Younger teens are now much less likely to say they are lesbian, gay, or bisexual” and this is also thankfully reflected in much of their sexual behavior.

Drawing her new conclusions from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s 2025 Youth Risk Survey, Twenge says the changes in youth sexual orientation identity “are striking.” Declines are happening most starkly among younger teens, and especially among girls.

She observes “it is really does look like a free fall” for high schoolers, especially 9th grade students. Her chart demonstrates the remarkable shift downward.

These lines denote the numbers of U.S. high school students “identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual” by grade from 2015-2025. Identifying as any of these dropped from 27% in 2023 to 22% in 2025 among girls. For boys, the decline was from 9% to 7%. She explains the previous increases from 2015 through 2020 were most notably among girls. “The previous increase in identifying as LGB was also larger among girls, with a 128% increase (more than doubling) from 2015 to 2021 among girls and a 99% increase (doubling) from 2015 to 2023 among boys.”

Specifically, the decline among 9th grade girls “dropped from 30% in 2021 to 17% in 2025, nearly cutting the numbers in half.” Declines among 12th grade girls have been much smaller, “from 26% in 2021 to 28% in 2023 and 25% in 2025.”

The most dramatic shift is among those who identified at bisexual, which is easily the largest “LGBT” category. This majority is most pronounced among younger populations and women, indicating more experimentation than anything else. But of this recent change, Twenge explains, “While 26% of 9th grade girls identified as bisexual in 2021, only 13% – half as many – did in 2025.”

That is a truly stunning development, indicating something is at work in the water of social culture. Data strongly supports the social contagion of gender identity shifts, but not as much attention has yet been given to the social contagion driving sexual behavior identity. The CDC data Twenge is now presenting certainly points in that direction.

The CDC Youth Risk Behavior data also tracks self-reports of actual relational behavior. Twenge explains “most high school students are not sexually active” and teen sexual behavior has been declining over the past decades.

But the few American teens who are sexually involved in same-sex behavior is a curious story. It is clearly declining among high school girls, but still growing among young boys as shown here.

Twenge observes, the data clearly “suggest that high school girls, especially younger girls, are no longer as likely to have same-sex partners.”

Professor Twenge also observes that this trend of overall LGBT decline is not being reflected in the data for young adults, ages 18 to 24. She explains that “it appears non-heterosexual identification is not declining (at least not anymore).” Instead, “It has stabilized and is no longer racing upward as it did between 2014 and 2022, when identifying as LGB nearly tripled among U.S. 18- to 24-year-olds.” She adds, “Among 25- to 34-year-olds, identifying as LGB also stabilized after more than doubling from 2014 to 2023.”

So, we are not seeing same-sex sexuality declines among young twenty- and thirty-somethings, but we are seeing a leveling off in the increases that have presented themselves in the past 20 years. Professor Twenge admits this is a curious development, “a generational or cohort effect, with different trends over the years for different age groups.”

She then asks, “What happened during this time that impacted 9th grade girls the most, especially their LGB identification and behavior?”

She humbly and refreshingly admits, “I have to confess: I have no idea.”

Human behavior in the midst of changing social and ideological dynamics is truly interesting. Culture drives so much of this, and it certainly is good news that culturally speaking, the wind appears to be going out of the sails of the sexual and gender revolution. It is now showing itself in the lives of our young people.

Stay tuned folks, the Daily Citizen will keep you updated.

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Sep 23 2026

Judge Blocks University of California’s ‘Misgendering’ Speech Policy

A California judge ruled against University of California’s policy of punishing students who “misgender” or “deadname” individuals who identify as “transgender.”

Defending Education challenged UC’s “Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy” and “Anti-Discrimination Policy” in June 2026, arguing that the policies forced students to use language that promotes “transgender” ideology and threatened students “who dare to disagree with the prevailing campus orthodoxy.”

District Judge Fred W. Slaughter issued a preliminary injunction on behalf of Defending Education and its members, barring UC schools from enforcing the rules against them. Defending Education had sought a broader injunction against the use of the policy, but the judge gave a narrow ruling.

The Sexual Violence Policy prohibits “intentional and repeated use of a name or pronoun inconsistent with the individual’s gender identity (i.e., misgendering).”

The policy states that a “hostile environment” is created when, for example, “a transgender man is intentionally and repeatedly called by his dead name (i.e., refers to a name that a transgender person was given at birth but that they no longer use).”

In other words, the policy prohibits students from calling transgender-identified individuals by names and pronouns consistent with their correct biological sex.

This is not just an abstract policy that threatens students who don’t believe transgender ideology.

Students at all 10 UC schools must undergo yearly “Sexual Harassment, Anti-Discrimination, Prevention and Education” training. The training emphasizes that students create a “hostile environment” when they don’t want to share a restroom with someone of the opposite sex or when they fail to acknowledge another’s “gender identity.”

Defending Education is a nonprofit grassroots organization that works “to restore free speech and the free exchange of ideas across K-12 and higher education while keeping political ideology and activism out of our schools.” The organization fights indoctrination in the classroom and promotes “the reestablishment of a quality, non-political education for all students.”

Its members, like “Student A” in the lawsuit, believe “that people are either male or female.” Her faith keeps her from affirming false “preferred pronouns” or “chosen names.”

According to the complaint, she has no animosity “towards people who identify as transgender or nonbinary,” but:

In fact, she thinks that affirming someone’s non-biological “gender identity” is harmful to that person because it encourages him to believe a falsehood about himself and discourages him from seeking proper care to address his gender dysphoria.

“Student C,” also listed in the lawsuit, likewise believes that “people are either male or female.” While he wants to speak up in class when these issues are raised or speak out publicly about men in women’s private spaces, he “self-censors” because he could “be punished for violating UC’s policies.”

UC policies violate the First Amendment rights of like-minded students who cannot affirm transgender lies. Such compelled speech is unconstitutional.

Defending Ed President Nicole Neily applauded Judge Slaughter’s decision and said the organization will continue to battle for students’ First Amendment rights:

We are gratified by today’s district court decision enjoining the University of California system’s coercive speech policy against our members. It is unconstitutional for public universities to compel student speech, and we will continue to defend this principle in California and other schools across the country as needed.

We wish them success as the case, Defending Education v. Maria Anguiano, makes its way through the courts.

Related articles and resources:

Court Rules Against Social Worker for Promoting ‘Binary View of Gender’

Free Speech Victory for Virginia Teacher Fired Over ‘Transgender’ Pronoun Policy

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Oregon School District Pays $650,000 for Firing Teachers Opposed to ‘Trans’ Policy

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Sep 18 2026

DOJ Announces Two More Hospitals Will Shut Down ‘Transgender’ Children’s Clinics

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that New York University Langone Hospitals (NYU) and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) will no longer provide harmful medical interventions to minors who reject their biological sex.

“Transgender” activists and their allies are decrying these closures. The Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBT activist group in the U.S., recently issued an “Alert!” saying, “Access to medically necessary healthcare for transgender people is under threat across the country, especially for transgender youth.”

In reality, federal agencies are working to protect children from destructive transgender medical procedures.

The DOJ said it had come to agreements with “two of the nation’s largest health care systems … that resolve investigations into potential violations of federal law arising from their provision of sex-rejecting procedures on children, often euphemistically referred to as ‘gender-affirming care.’”

The agency added:

Under the agreements, NYU and UPMC will cease providing these dangerous interventions to minors, which include administering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and performing surgical procedures. Each hospital will also pay a monetary amount as part of the resolutions, with NYU agreeing to pay $8.5 million and UPMC $950,000.

Attorney General Todd Blanche said:

Today’s resolutions send a clear message: hospitals that target children in these practices and then fraudulently obtain payment for the procedures will be held to account.

In mentioning fraud, Blanche was referring to the recent report from the Department of Health and Human Services “Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of “Gender Medicine,” which alleged that hospitals and healthcare workers often used fraudulent billing to obtain puberty blockers for minors with sexual identity confusion.

Some insurance companies and many state Medicaid programs will not pay for puberty blockers for mental health issues when they are correctly billed as “gender identity disorder of childhood” or “other gender identity disorders.”

In order to obtain these dangerous drugs for children, some doctors and hospitals falsely use the coding for real physical disorders like “endocrine disorder, unspecified” or “precocious puberty.”

HHS and the DOJ have been investigating these dishonest practices. Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. commented on Wolves in White Coats:

Doctors and hospitals must put children’s health ahead of ideology and financial gain.

This report identifies troubling billing practices that demand scrutiny. HHS will follow the evidence, protect taxpayers, and hold accountable anyone who broke the law or violated the trust of patients and families.

The DOJ press release explained that this is not the first such agreement with major providers of damaging treatments for sex-rejecting minors:

Today’s announcement follows similar agreements with Mount Sinai Health System in New York, Texas Children’s Hospital, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and Connecticut Children’s Hospital.

LGBT activist groups have vociferously opposed HHS and the DOJ investigating and shutting down gender clinics that permanently disfigure, mutilate and sterilize children.

Shortly after Mount Sinai came to an agreement with the DOJ to permanently close its children’s clinic, 250 transgender activists and their allies showed up to protest.

Mother Jones reported on Angelica Jadunandan, who had moved to New York so her eight-year-old son could get harmful gender medical procedures.

Jadunandan is raising him as a girl.

The magazine informed its readers:

“My daughter told me she was trans when she was three years old,” Jadunadan told a group of protesters outside Mount Sinai on September 8th. “It wasn’t ‘I think.’ It was ‘I know.’”

So the family moved a thousand miles from home, hoping for safety. “But I know better than most that this fight follows you, wherever you go,” Jadunadan said.

That’s right. A three-year-old “told” his mother he was “trans.”

Without the clinic’s closing, the young boy would have been in line for powerful body-damaging puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries.

The Daily Citizen is grateful that the DOJ and HHS are stopping this lunacy. As Brett Shuate, assistant attorney general for the Civil Division stated:

We appreciate that some of the nation’s largest and most prestigious hospital systems have agreed to cease harming minors under the guise of ‘gender-affirming care’ and agreed to pay for potential violations of federal law when they did so.

But I want to be clear: our efforts and investigations into other providers are ongoing. Those that have broken the law and not resolved their potential liability will be prosecuted to the fullest extent possible.

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DOJ Announces Cleveland ‘Gender Clinic Will Now Offer Help to Detransitioners

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Helping Children with Gender Identity Confusion

HHS Ceases Medicaid, CHIP Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures for Kids

HHS Will Block Hospitals From Performing Sex-Rejecting, Mutilating Procedures on Children

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Sep 16 2026

Massachusetts Family Fights for Custody of ‘Trans’ Daughter

A Massachusetts family is fighting for custody of their daughter after she was removed from their home because they would not affirm her claim that she’s a boy.

Joseph and Arlene Kutzko allege that their daughter, Sophie, was first groomed and “transitioned” into believing she was a boy by her high school. Their Catholic faith would not allow them to agree with false “transgender” ideology, so the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) removed the then-15-year-old girl from their home.

The Kutzkos, along with Vernadette Broyles, president and chief counsel of Child & Parental Rights Campaign, explained the story to Fox News Religion Correspondent Lauren Green on her podcast Lighthouse Faith.

Joseph Kutzko explained that their daughter was secretly “transitioned” after she was exposed to LGBT teaching through the Northborough-Southborough Regional School District. He said the topics conflicted with their “Catholic beliefs about human dignity [and] creation as male and female.”

In November of 2024, the Kutzkos noticed behavior changes in their 15-year old daughter, as she became more withdrawn. Up until that time, Sophie had been deeply involved with her family in their local church.

Algonquin Regional High School had placed her in counseling sessions – without the Kutzko’s knowledge or consent. The school lied and told them she “was staying after school for extra math help.”

Broyles explained the school was doing what schools across the country have done – secretly transitioning Sophie. She added, “Sophie had started to reject her sex, like so many thousands of girls across the country.” The school used a male name and pronouns to refer to her, affirming her rejection of her natural sex.

Broyles stated that the school reported the family to DCF because “they knew this Catholic family would not affirm the falsehood that their daughter was a boy.”

Joseph said that they’ve had no contact with their daughter since January of 2025, and Broyles added the court put the no-contact decision “entirely in the hands of this minor child.”

The family is fighting in court to be able to contact Sophie, to bring her back home, and to stop the court from giving her testosterone.

Broyles said there were also initial allegations of physical abuse and neglect against Joseph, but these charges were untrue and unsupported, so the cases have been dropped.

Massachusetts DCF – along with many schools, transgender activists, politicians, state legislatures, and other child protective services agencies – call it “abuse” for parents not to affirm a child’s sexual identity confusion.

This is not an isolated event, despite what trans activists and their allies maintain, saying, “That never happens.”

It does happen, and has been happening for years now. Across the country.

Schools have been inculcating children into transgender ideology, teaching that they might really be the opposite sex – or another pseudo-gender altogether. This indoctrination often begins with impressionable young children in pre-kindergarten, continuing through 12th grade.

Schools then help these confused, sexualized children to “socially and medically transition,” as the Daily Citizen has repeatedly reported.

Broyles told Green that Child & Parental Rights Campaign has been contacted by parents in many different states who are in similar situations, as her organization works with parents who seek to protect their parental rights and their relationships with their children.

Most of these families suffer in silence, she added, because courts may hold them in contempt for discussing their case. She said that Massachusetts courts have protected parents’ free speech rights, which is why the Kutzkos are speaking out.

Green highlighted the importance of this issues, saying:

It is the spiritual battle of our cultural times, as people of faith war with various school districts, government services, government agencies over their parental rights.

If you’ve not paid a lot of attention to this, for whatever reason, … this is of utmost importance, because children have been removed from their homes, legally, when a child rejects their biological sex.

In the name of transgenderism, state legislatures, schools and child protective services are destroying parent-child relationships, attacking parental rights, and violating free speech and religious freedom.

This is, indeed, a spiritual battle; the Kutskos and other Christian parents are warring against the darkness of transgender ideology. Let’s pray for them to continue to have strength, to prevail and to have restored relationships with their children.

Listen to Lauren Green’s interview with the Kutzkos and Vernadette Broyles at Lighthouse Faith.

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