In the run-up to the November election, newly formed activist group Athletes for Action has joined Protect Kids Colorado to promote Proposition 134, the effort to ban transgender athletes from participating in sports. This week, Athletes for Action has launched a statewide video ad urging Colorado voters to vote for Proposition 134 in the November 3 election. The ad lists Jennifer Sey, the Colorado-based founder of XX-XY athletics, as the group’s registered agent, although, as of publication, Colorado’s campaign finance disclosure website, TRACER, shows no record of the group.
Protect Kids Colorado
‘Not Victim-Centered At All:’ Trafficking Survivors Slam Anti-LGBTQ Group’s Ballot Measure as Harmful to Victims
“I mean, to me, they just have blinders on. They're not considering the victim at all. They're hiding behind the title of ‘Protect Kids Colorado.'"
DAVIS: CTR on City Cast Denver
Ballots are officially in the mailstream and will be arriving in Colorado voters’ mailboxes over the next few days. As a helpful tip, you’ll probably be able to tell when your ballot arrives when you look through your front window and see your mailbox straining under the weight of what’s inside it: almost certainly the longest ballot Colorado has ever mailed.
‘Asking Providers to Become Lawyers:’ Advocates, Physicians Oppose Ballot Measure Targeting Trans Healthcare
The Colorado Medical Society is warning that a ballot measure which purports to ban transgender youth from receiving gender-related surgical care could have wider-reaching ramifications for children’s healthcare in general.
Cheek Swabs? Genital Checks? Anti-Trans Sports Ban Proponents Don’t Know How It Would Be Enforced
Opponents of Prop. 134 have argued that the language of the bill necessitates invasive inspections of children. Even its backers have punted on the issue of how it should be enforced.
The Official Muckraker Ballot Guide
Corporate giveaways, climate denialism, naked bigotry, and other bad ideas. By volume, those are the suggestions which will constitute the bulk of Colorado’s November ballot. As I’ve spent the last several weeks writing about, this year marks only the second time in state history that voters have had to contend with as many as 14 initiatives on a single ballot, and most of them are more a product of astroturf than grassroots.
DAVIS: Three Bigoted Ballot Measures
When your ballot arrives in the mail in a few weeks, it will be the size of a phonebook. That’s due to the whopping 14 ballot initiatives which qualified for the November election, tying 2008 as the high water mark for Colorado’s initiative system. As I’ve spent the last several weeks rambling about, 8 of those 14 initiatives are sponsored by billionaire-backed conservative organization Advance Colorado, and every single one of those eight deserve a no vote.
Campaign Finance Complaint: Anti-Trans Initiative Backers Failed to Report Payments for Petitions
A new campaign finance complaint alleges that the backers of two anti-trans ballot initiatives paid a canvassing company to gather signatures to make the ballot, but failed to report those payments to the Colorado Secretary of State.
FACT CHECK: Debunking the False Claims of an Anti-LGBTQ Sportswear Exec
Sey’s list of national and international talking points was, in some cases, based on dubious information. In other cases, Sey made claims that were verifiably false.
For the Record: Anti-Trans Activist Says Peer Pressure Turns Kids LGBTQ
Erin Lee's political crusade has largely targeted transgender youth, but when pressed, she said that students are indoctrinated or pressured into assuming other identities, too. She says that the victims of this pressure are "straight white kids," who only claim an LGBTQ identity to be "cool."