Initiative 110 Qualifies for the November Ballot

Colorado Voters Get Their Say on Protecting Minors

In The Federalist, CPAN Executive Director and Protect Kids Colorado Board Director Lori Gimelshteyn celebrated the official qualification of Initiative 110, a citizen-led measure that would prohibit gender-transition procedures for anyone 17 or younger and stop taxpayer dollars from paying for them. It joins two other Protect Kids Colorado measures on the ballot: Initiative 108, which would impose life without parole for buying or selling a child for sex, and Initiative 109, which would designate school sports teams as male, female, or co-ed to keep girls’ sports for girls. In just six months, volunteers gathered more than 170,000 signatures for 108 and 109 and about 165,000 for 110, with a reported 91 percent validity rate, and spent under $200,000 when qualifying a measure typically costs about $2 million. Initiative 110 is chaired by Protect Kids Colorado Executive Director Erin Lee, whose own daughter was socially transitioned at school without her parents’ knowledge. Gimelshteyn also corrected false claims from opponents, pointing out that the measure explicitly excludes circumcision and care for children born with medically verifiable disorders of sex development. For Coloradans, she said, this is about right and wrong, not left and right.

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