Under Proposition 134, girls could play boys' school sports with no girls' team
Oct 19, 2026 · 7 min · 6 segments
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Kim MonsonHost
Oct 19, 2026 · 7 min · 6 segments
Kim MonsonHost
Megan Burke, co-founder of Athletes for Action, said on the Kim Monson Show on October 19, 2026, that a girl playing baseball for her school could keep playing under Proposition 134.
The measure would keep a male team open to a female student when no female team is offered or available for that sport.
A girl playing baseball for her school could keep her place on the team under Proposition 134.
Megan Burke, co-founder of Athletes for Action, said on The Kim Monson Show on October 19, 2026, answering a Denver Post editorial that urged a no vote.
The measures text would close a team designated for boys to a female student unless there is no female team offered or available for such sport for such female student or participant.
In its October 8, 2026, Editorial, the Denver Post Editorial Board, wrote that a Longmont High School student had become the first girl to play baseball at the school and that we fear that if Proposition 134 passes, she might be the last.
The board wrote that the measure would allow girls to play on a boys' team only if the sport is not offered for girls and argued that schools have historically treated softball as the girls' equivalent of baseball.
It asked whether a girl seeking a place on a tackle football team would have to argue that flag football is not an equivalent in court rather than just showing up to tryouts.
Burke said the measure already covers a girl in the Longmont student's position because no girl's baseball team is available to her and that she actually would be able to play.
When Kim Monson asked whether the girl would still have to earn her place, Burke answered, of course, adding, she would have to earn her spot on that team.
Burke won 15 Colorado state championships in cross country and track at Smoky Hill High School and two NCAA titles at the University of North Carolina, and she was inducted into the Colorado High School Activities Association Hall of Fame in 2024.
The organization says on its website it was created to protect girls and women in sports and establish a community of female athletes to support one another.
Proposition 134, a citizen-initiated statute whose text names it the Protect Women and Girls Sports Act.
would require every interscholastic or intramural team sponsored by a school or athletic association to be designated for males for females or as coeducational or mixed, based on biological sex.
An interscholastic or intramural athletic team or sport sponsored by a school or athletic association and designated for males, men, or boys shall not be open to a female student or participant unless there is no female team offered or available for such sport for such female student or participant.
The measure names no individual sport, so neither baseball nor softball appears in its text.
Under the measure, the governing body of each school must adopt a policy implementing the provisions of this article.
The Kim Monson Newsroom's earlier explainer covers the measure's definitions and scope.
Megan Burke, co-founder of Athletes for Action, said on the Kim Monson Show on October 19, 2026, that a girl playing baseball for her school could keep playing under Proposition 134.
The measure would keep a male team open to a female student when no female team is offered or available for that sport.
A girl playing baseball for her school could keep her place on the team under Proposition 134.
Megan Burke, co-founder of Athletes for Action, said on The Kim Monson Show on October 19, 2026, answering a Denver Post editorial that urged a no vote.
The measures text would close a team designated for boys to a female student unless there is no female team offered or available for such sport for such female student or participant.
In its October 8, 2026, Editorial, the Denver Post Editorial Board, wrote that a Longmont High School student had become the first girl to play baseball at the school and that we fear that if Proposition 134 passes, she might be the last.
The board wrote that the measure would allow girls to play on a boys' team only if the sport is not offered for girls and argued that schools have historically treated softball as the girls' equivalent of baseball.
It asked whether a girl seeking a place on a tackle football team would have to argue that flag football is not an equivalent in court rather than just showing up to tryouts.
Burke said the measure already covers a girl in the Longmont student's position because no girl's baseball team is available to her and that she actually would be able to play.
When Kim Monson asked whether the girl would still have to earn her place, Burke answered, of course, adding, she would have to earn her spot on that team.
Burke won 15 Colorado state championships in cross country and track at Smoky Hill High School and two NCAA titles at the University of North Carolina, and she was inducted into the Colorado High School Activities Association Hall of Fame in 2024.
The organization says on its website it was created to protect girls and women in sports and establish a community of female athletes to support one another.
Proposition 134, a citizen-initiated statute whose text names it the Protect Women and Girls Sports Act.
would require every interscholastic or intramural team sponsored by a school or athletic association to be designated for males for females or as coeducational or mixed, based on biological sex.
An interscholastic or intramural athletic team or sport sponsored by a school or athletic association and designated for males, men, or boys shall not be open to a female student or participant unless there is no female team offered or available for such sport for such female student or participant.
The measure names no individual sport, so neither baseball nor softball appears in its text.
Under the measure, the governing body of each school must adopt a policy implementing the provisions of this article.
The Kim Monson Newsroom's earlier explainer covers the measure's definitions and scope.
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