In a historic first for Colorado, a mom with no political machine behind her just put three major child-protection measures on the November ballot—and she did it without a dime from the consultant class or the billionaire donors.
Protect Kids Colorado, the grassroots outfit founded by Army wife and mother Erin Lee, gathered more than half a million signatures with a 91 percent validity rate, the highest in state history.
The measures are straightforward: life without parole for buying or selling a minor for sex, keeping males out of girls’ sports and locker rooms, and ending irreversible “sex-rejecting” surgeries on children.
Polling shows these are not left-right issues. They are right-versus-wrong issues that cut across party lines, with massive support among everyday Americans and even Democrats.
Lee did not set out to become a political warrior. She was a typical left-leaning millennial until her own daughter came home from a government school “art club” announcing she was “transgender.”
That club, Lee later learned, was a secret gender-and-sexuality group that connected kids to online predators, taught polyamory, and instructed them how to obtain puberty blockers and see doctors without parental knowledge—legal in Colorado at age 12.
When the family pushed back, school staff discussed sending Child Protective Services (CPS) to the house and treated the parents as the problem. Lee and her husband pulled their daughter out. The girl recovered. Lee then decided other families should not have to fight this alone.
What followed is the kind of story the LGTBQ++ movement hoped would stay buried. Lee built an army of more than 3,300 volunteer petition circulators, 1,900 notaries, and hundreds of churches—including the entire Catholic diocese and ten of the state’s twelve megachurches.
Disaffected Democrats signed because they hate child sex trafficking more than they hate Republicans. First-time voters registered just to carry petitions. The Republican establishment, she discovered, was not interested in solving the problem if it could not monetize it. The Democrat legislature and governor had already refused.
So ordinary Coloradans did it themselves.
Lee is the first to say the fight is not over. Twenty-seven red states have already passed similar protections through their legislatures. Colorado would be the first blue state to do it at the ballot box, and that would send shockwaves.
Yet she warns against the complacency she hears from some conservative commentators who declare “transgender ideology is dead.”
It is not.
No Supreme Court case has yet settled whether schools can socially transition children behind parents’ backs. Federal legislation still does not exist. Culture still has to change. That is why Protect Kids Colorado is running a word-of-mouth campaign instead of a paid media blitz. Ballots drop October 2 in this mail-in state.
This is what happens when parents stop asking permission and start organizing. Colorado voters now get the final say—not the uniparty, not the courts, not the schools.
Watch the interview. Then tell your neighbors. Children are not for sale, girls deserve their own sports teams, and no child should be medically castrated, mutilated, and sterilized because a teacher decided they were “born in the wrong body.”
That is not controversial. That is common sense. And it is on the ballot in Colorado.
Hopefully other states will follow suit.
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