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"Advocacy groups get trans athlete bans on ballots in Maine, Colorado
The petitions to put the issue to voters are part of a wave of new ballot initiatives designed to bypass state legislatures.
Maine and Colorado this week approved ballot initiatives by advocacy groups seeking to ban transgender student-athletes from playing on girls’ sports teams, putting a debate that has become an enduring political flash point up for direct vote in blue states where leaders have resisted such policies.
The states are the latest to take up the issue this election year. Voters in Washington state will also vote on trans athletes in November, and similar measures have been proposed in Arizona, Nevada and Nebraska.
The groups pushing the initiatives, which would bar transgender student-athletes from participating in sports teams of their gender identity, have called them citizen-led efforts to bypass state legislatures. Critics said the proposed bans are discriminatory.
Leyland Streiff, from the advocacy group Protect Girls Sports in Maine, said in a news release that the proposal is “inclusive, fair and safe” and that the ballot initiative will let voters decide through “the most democratic process possible,” the Maine Morning Star reported."
Looks like the peasants are revolting on the transgender males in girls' sports issue. This is a hill that the Dems want to die on. Let's help them.
The petitions to put the issue to voters are part of a wave of new ballot initiatives designed to bypass state legislatures.
Maine and Colorado this week approved ballot initiatives by advocacy groups seeking to ban transgender student-athletes from playing on girls’ sports teams, putting a debate that has become an enduring political flash point up for direct vote in blue states where leaders have resisted such policies.
The states are the latest to take up the issue this election year. Voters in Washington state will also vote on trans athletes in November, and similar measures have been proposed in Arizona, Nevada and Nebraska.
The groups pushing the initiatives, which would bar transgender student-athletes from participating in sports teams of their gender identity, have called them citizen-led efforts to bypass state legislatures. Critics said the proposed bans are discriminatory.
Leyland Streiff, from the advocacy group Protect Girls Sports in Maine, said in a news release that the proposal is “inclusive, fair and safe” and that the ballot initiative will let voters decide through “the most democratic process possible,” the Maine Morning Star reported."
Looks like the peasants are revolting on the transgender males in girls' sports issue. This is a hill that the Dems want to die on. Let's help them.
