Link: https://www.westword.com/news/colorado-hate-state-strategy-being-repeated-election-40945555/

Propositions 134 and 135 would restrict transgender students’ participation in school sports and ban gender-affirming medical care for minors. Like Amendment 2, they take a fight over LGBTQ+ rights out of the halls of the state Capitol and put it directly before voters. And, like Amendment 2, the campaigns surrounding them have centered on the idea that protecting LGBTQ+ people comes at the expense of someone else — in this case, children.

The similarities are not lost on people who lived through Colorado’s fight over LGBTQ+ rights more than three decades ago, even when the political circumstances today are different. The underlying political question is the same: What happens when the rights of a small, politically vulnerable group are put directly to a statewide vote?