Legislative Council's Blue Book uses 'gender-affirming' nine times on Prop 135
Oct 16, 2026 · 8 min · 8 segments
Oct 16, 2026 · 8 min · 8 segments
Legislative Council staff's 2026 Blue Book analysis of Proposition 135 uses the term gender-affirming nine times, while the ballot title and the measure's text describe surgery to alter a minor's biological sex characteristics.
Protect Kids Colorado, which urges a yes vote on the measure, asked the staff in writing to replace the term.
The Legislative Council staff's 2026 Blue Book analysis of Proposition 135, a measure that would prohibit certain surgeries for minors, uses the term gender-affirming nine times.
The ballot title printed on Colorado ballots for the November 3, 2026, election never uses the term, and neither does the text of the measure, whose short title is the Protect Children from Irreversible Sex Change Surgery Act.
The ballot title describes surgery for the purpose of altering the minor's biological sex characteristics, the same language the measure uses.
Those nine uses in the Proposition 135 analysis are the only appearances of the term anywhere in the 2026 State Ballot Information Booklet.
In its summary of the measure, the analysis says the prohibition includes gender-affirming surgeries, which are a range of procedures that may be provided to transgender individuals to make their physical appearance match their gender identity.
Patty Muckernan, a board director of Protect Kids Colorado, spoke about the measure's wording on The Kim Monson Show on October 16th.
Well, sex change surgery where you're destroying body parts is not gender-affirming care, Mukherjee said.
Mukherjee said the measure covers only surgery performed to change a child's sex characteristics.
This is for the purpose of changing the sex characteristics in the body, she said.
The Coalition, which urges voters to vote yes on Propositions 133, 134, and 135, tells visitors to its homepage, The Blue Book is biased against our initiatives.
Legislative Council staff's 2026 Blue Book analysis of Proposition 135 uses the term gender-affirming nine times, while the ballot title and the measure's text describe surgery to alter a minor's biological sex characteristics.
Protect Kids Colorado, which urges a yes vote on the measure, asked the staff in writing to replace the term.
The Legislative Council staff's 2026 Blue Book analysis of Proposition 135, a measure that would prohibit certain surgeries for minors, uses the term gender-affirming nine times.
The ballot title printed on Colorado ballots for the November 3, 2026, election never uses the term, and neither does the text of the measure, whose short title is the Protect Children from Irreversible Sex Change Surgery Act.
The ballot title describes surgery for the purpose of altering the minor's biological sex characteristics, the same language the measure uses.
Those nine uses in the Proposition 135 analysis are the only appearances of the term anywhere in the 2026 State Ballot Information Booklet.
In its summary of the measure, the analysis says the prohibition includes gender-affirming surgeries, which are a range of procedures that may be provided to transgender individuals to make their physical appearance match their gender identity.
Patty Muckernan, a board director of Protect Kids Colorado, spoke about the measure's wording on The Kim Monson Show on October 16th.
Well, sex change surgery where you're destroying body parts is not gender-affirming care, Mukherjee said.
Mukherjee said the measure covers only surgery performed to change a child's sex characteristics.
This is for the purpose of changing the sex characteristics in the body, she said.
The Coalition, which urges voters to vote yes on Propositions 133, 134, and 135, tells visitors to its homepage, The Blue Book is biased against our initiatives.
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