Conservatives qualify two anti-trans ballot measures in Colorado

Two initiatives targeting transgender people in Colorado will be on the November ballot, state election authorities announced this week.

One of these proposals would ban “surgery for minors for the purpose of altering the minor’s biological sex characteristics.” This measure, known as Ballot Initiative 110, would also ban the use of state and federal funding for such procedures.

Ballot Initiative 109, meanwhile, targets transgender student athletes at both the K-12 and college levels. The proposal would bar students from participating on a sports team designated for the gender they were not assigned at birth. The state’s commissioner of education would be directed to “take appropriate remedial action” against schools that do not follow these rules.

Both initiatives were spearheaded by Protect Kids Colorado, an outfit whose leadership includes former state Sen. Kevin Lundberg. Lundberg wrote earlier this year that his organization was spearheading a “significant fight to stop the transgender plague in Colorado.”



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