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Title: Equality or exclusion? New ballot measure seeks to separate school sports teams
Post by: Lori Dee on March 18, 2026, 12:41:25 PM
Post by: Lori Dee on March 18, 2026, 12:41:25 PM
Equality or exclusion? New ballot measure seeks to separate school sports teams by sex
https://krdo.com/news/2026/03/16/equality-or-exclusion-new-ballot-measure-seeks-to-separate-school-sports-teams-by-sex
KRDO - Colorado Springs
Michael Logerwell
March 16, 2026 11:14 PM - Published March 16, 2026 7:58 PM
Colorado voters will have the opportunity to weigh in on one of the biggest hot button issue in the country.
Ballot measure #109 titled "Concerning Male and Female Participation in School Sports" seeks to require the governing body of every school (charter, public, private, and even college and community college) to require separate teams for girls/women and boys/men based on biological sex.
The measure's language says it would reduce the chance of injury for female athletes and promote equality between the sexes.
LGBTQ+ advocates say it's another attack on transgender students.
"Who's going to be looking at young people, especially young girls? To say whether or not they are transgender or cisgender."
Nadine Bridges is the Executive Director of One Colorado, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group.
To answer her question, the measure says gender is "determined by certain aspects of their biological reproductive system," but does not mention who makes that determination. Lee tells KRDO13 there wouldn't be genital checks; instead, a mouth swab that would identify XX or XY chromosomes.
That is not mentioned in the ballot language, which instead says that male and female will be determined by reproductive systems.
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Hopefully, the strongest voting bloc (Democrats) will shoot this down. But there are many areas of Colorado that are Trumpist. They have few numbers, but are the loudest minority.
https://krdo.com/news/2026/03/16/equality-or-exclusion-new-ballot-measure-seeks-to-separate-school-sports-teams-by-sex
KRDO - Colorado Springs
Michael Logerwell
March 16, 2026 11:14 PM - Published March 16, 2026 7:58 PM
Colorado voters will have the opportunity to weigh in on one of the biggest hot button issue in the country.
Ballot measure #109 titled "Concerning Male and Female Participation in School Sports" seeks to require the governing body of every school (charter, public, private, and even college and community college) to require separate teams for girls/women and boys/men based on biological sex.
The measure's language says it would reduce the chance of injury for female athletes and promote equality between the sexes.
LGBTQ+ advocates say it's another attack on transgender students.
"Who's going to be looking at young people, especially young girls? To say whether or not they are transgender or cisgender."
Nadine Bridges is the Executive Director of One Colorado, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group.
To answer her question, the measure says gender is "determined by certain aspects of their biological reproductive system," but does not mention who makes that determination. Lee tells KRDO13 there wouldn't be genital checks; instead, a mouth swab that would identify XX or XY chromosomes.
That is not mentioned in the ballot language, which instead says that male and female will be determined by reproductive systems.
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Hopefully, the strongest voting bloc (Democrats) will shoot this down. But there are many areas of Colorado that are Trumpist. They have few numbers, but are the loudest minority.