Voters in four states weighed in on curbing transgender-related laws.
The election on Nov. 3 was a disaster for right-of-center Americans, as Democrats took control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, winning reliably red states such as Texas, South Carolina, and Kansas, and flipping House seats across the country that had voted for Donald Trump by double digits in 2024.
Additionally, Los Angeles has joined New York, and both cities now have socialist mayors.
In a rare bit of good news, transgenderism—a long-standing craze—suffered a setback in four states. Polling shows that a large majority of Americans, including many Democrats, believe athletes should compete on teams that match their sex at birth. With that in mind, traditionalists on the issue decided to bypass state legislatures and take it directly to voters.
In Washington and Colorado, voters were asked if transgender girls should be barred from girls’ sports teams. Nebraskans had to decide whether to enshrine an existing ban in the state constitution. In Arizona, the electorate was asked whether to expand an existing ban that covers school teams to include recreation league teams and to bar transgender boys from joining boys’ teams.
The Washington measure goes much further than other transgender restrictions, requiring all girls to prove they are female to play sports. A birth certificate would not be sufficient. Instead, girls would need a health provider’s statement verifying their sex “based on reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup, or normal endogenously produced testosterone levels.”
The Washington, Colorado, and Arizona ballot measures are notable because they are in blue states with laws that support transgender rights, including the right of young athletes to play on teams that match their gender identity.
In a rare win for sanity, all four measures passed. In Nebraska, a whopping 68 percent voted for the measure. In Washington, about 57 percent of voters supported it. In Colorado, 52 percent voted for the proposition. In Arizona, 59 percent of voters approved it.
Matt Sharp, vice president of public policy at Alliance Defending Freedom, said the ballot measures’ success demonstrates public support for protecting women’s sports.
Looking at the big picture, the transgender craze has invaded our institutions, and this pushback is welcome. A story from Massachusetts illustrates how deeply trans mania is ingrained.
According to January Littlejohn, a parent advocate for Do No Harm, an advocacy group that protects healthcare from the “disastrous consequences of identity politics,” Massachusetts state authorities removed Joseph and Arlene Kutzko’s then-15-year-old daughter from their home in 2024. The Kutzkos, devout Catholics, believe they were punished for refusing to affirm their daughter’s transgender identity, which was allegedly encouraged in secret by her school counselor. The state obtained guardianship, but a court issued a temporary injunction preventing the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families from administering testosterone to their daughter. Governor Maura Healey defended the authorities, ignoring biological reality and parental rights.
Another example of extremism occurred recently in Colorado. The new school year had not even begun when an award-winning teacher in Colorado Springs got in trouble for wearing a T-shirt that simply stated that men and women have different chromosomes, as FrontPage Magazine’s Sara Dogan explained.
Stacy Adair teaches English Language learners at Wilson Elementary School. On August 6, a teacher preparation day, Adair wore a T-shirt bearing a simple biological fact: “XX≠XY.”
A week later, Adair was hauled into the office by school district administrators to defend herself. She was told that an anonymous complaint had been filed about her T-shirt and that she was not to wear it again. The reprimand was especially odd because no students were at school that day.
Rules are rules, however, and the Colorado Springs school district has a policy that forbids wearing clothing that is explicitly political or “disruptive to the educational environment.”
But this is clearly a one-way street.
Over her decades of teaching, Adair said she has “seen it all in terms of teachers wearing LGBTQ+ gear to school, including T-shirts, badges, and pins with images indicating support for people who identify as lesbian, gay, transgender, queer and related descriptors,” writes Debby Kelly in The Denver Gazette.
To illustrate the depth of trans mania, the National College Health Assessment, drawing on data from a report by the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, finds that the share of U.S. college students identifying as transgender or “nonbinary” is at an all-time high, ranging from 4.7 percent to 6.7 percent.
But UCLA’s Williams Institute, an LGBTQ advocacy group, asserts that 99.4 percent of the population lacks the physical traits that would make someone transgender. The 0.6 percent of the adult population who experience gender dysphoria—a condition that causes significant distress—certainly deserve empathy and respect.
Additionally, Brown University physician and researcher Lisa Littman published a 2018 study suggesting that “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” in young people might be influenced by social and peer contagion. She notes that nearly 70 percent of teenagers were in a peer group with at least one friend who identified as transgender.
While trans mania has infected many U.S. public schools, one unacknowledged fact remains: teachers are “mandated reporters.”
In fact, all 50 states have enacted laws that require educators to report suspected child abuse and neglect. Some states extend mandated reporting requirements to all school personnel, including administrators, paraprofessionals, coaches, and support staff such as bus drivers and custodians.
State laws require suspected abuse to be reported promptly, typically within 24 hours. Educators then submit reports to Child Protective Services (CPS), law enforcement, or another designated agency. In many states, notifying a supervisor alone does not fulfill an educator’s legal obligation.
Failing to report in a timely manner can result in serious consequences, including fines, loss of certification, and even misdemeanor charges.
As a former teacher with 28 years of experience, I remember mandated reporting being strongly emphasized at every teachers’ meeting at the start of each school year.
But now it’s the government that is complicit in abusing children.
However, at least in four states, voters have done what they could to slow the spread of the noxious trans mania.
Larry Sand, a former classroom teacher, is the president of the non-profit California Teachers Empowerment Network—a nonpartisan, non-political group dedicated to providing teachers and the general public with reliable and balanced information about professional affiliations and positions on educational issues. The views presented here are strictly his own.
Source: https://amgreatness.com/2026/11/11/trans-mania-on-the-ballot/
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