Protect Kids Colorado executive director Erin Lee tells Fox News Digital how her family’s experience helped inspire a grassroots campaign behind Colorado ballot measures addressing girls’ sports & transgender surgeries for minors. A Colorado mother who said her daughter was secretly socially transitioned at school helped lead a grassroots campaign that delivered major midterm victories, including measures restricting boys from playing in girls’ spots in the traditionally Democratic state. [snip] “I co-founded Protect Kids Colorado because, five-and-a-half years ago, my 12-year-old daughter was secretly transitioned in her sixth-grade classroom,” Lee said. In 2023, Lee, her husband and another couple, who at the time had sixth-grade daughters attending Wellington Middle-High School (WMS), sued educators at the Poudre School District with the assistance of America First Policy Institute and Illumine Legal, according to a copy of the lawsuit. [snip] Proposition 133 passed with approximately 62% support, while the other two measures, proposition 134, received roughly 52% and proposition 135 also received 52%. In the same election, Coloradans re-elected Democratic Sen. John Hickenlooper in a landslide with 60 percent of the vote. [snip] “I think that really speaks volumes to the fact that gender ideology is not a winning issue,” she added. Lee said the campaign relied on more than 3,300 petition circulators, over 1,900 notaries and support from more than 1,000 churches. She claimed opponents spent more than $5 million, outspending her organization by more than 20 to 1. “This really was a movement of the people,” Lee said. [snip] “And then it happened to us personally, and we were attacked by the school district when my daughter came home and declared she was suddenly a boy. We spoke up to the school and they vilified us. They sent in a well child check to check on our kids and assumed we weren’t fit parents because we didn’t instantly affirm. We were bullied with the suicide myth, ‘Would you rather have a living son or a dead daughter? You have to medicalize your child,’ and we’re one of a few success stories,” she said. Lee said her daughter one day moved on from the gender confusion, and asked her mom to become an advocate for others who might find themselves in a similar place. [snip] Her daughter’s request, according to Lee, helped launch the advocacy work that ultimately grew into Protect Kids Colorado’s statewide campaign. Lee said she sees the election results as evidence of a broader cultural shift. [snip] The spokesperson added that “the claims in Lee v. Poudre School District R-1 were dismissed by the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. That dismissal was affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in April 2025. The plaintiffs subsequently petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for review, and the Court denied that petition in October 2025. At no stage of this litigation was the district found liable.” Fox News Digital reached out to LGBTQ advocacy organization One Colorado for comment, as well as Families Not Politics, an organization opposing the measures. (*) Full article: https://www.foxnews.com/culture/colorado-mom-who-said-daughter-secretly-transitioned-helps-lead-effort-ban-boys-girls-sports Post navigation Turns Out Blue State’s ‘Glock Ban’ Covers A Lot More Than Just Glock Sick Leftist Podcast Loses Sponsors after Vile Joke about Charlie Kirk
