Tourists call Colorado “America’s playground.”
A decade ago, they meant peaks, rivers, and powder—all to be enjoyed with more than 300 days of sunshine. It was that kind of international attraction.
Today, Colorado seems more like a playground as in a red-light entertainment district. We’ve gone from a PG-13 state to an NC-17 dystopia. The people in charge look away from what happens to kids, because looking would mean doing something, and doing something might offend a donor, activist, or caucus chair.
These crimes are not unusual. They are common and involve people who hide in plain view and are often dressed as professionals. Only four months ago police charged the then-chair of the Weld County Republican Party with trying to have sex with a 14-year-old decoy in a sting operation.
This November, voters can do what the legislature will not. Three citizen initiatives, put on the ballot by Coloradans who gathered signatures in grocery lots and church lobbies, ask a simple question: Do we still believe children deserve protection?
Vote yes on all three.
Proposition 133: No parole for people who sell children for sex
A person convicted of sex trafficking a minor in Colorado can get 16 to 48 years in prison — with parole. Someone who sells a 13-year-old girl to strangers, night after night, can walk out of jail and quickly return to living in his community.
Proposition 133 makes trafficking a child for sex a Class 1 felony — life without parole. The man who pays for sex with a child is not a “John,” he is the buyer of a child sold like a sex toy, a predator who put cash on the table to dehumanize and rape a minor.
Some will say, isn’t that harsher than the sentence for some murders? Yes. Good. Murder ends one life. Child trafficking wrecks a life and leaves the victim to carry serious trauma with her forever. She cannot beg a parole board for release from permanent psychological damage.
Six other states already do this, including Arizona, Florida, and Nevada. (Nevada, of all places! Even Las Vegas draws a line!)
A similar idea came up this past legislative session as a bill titled the “Children Are Not For Sale Act.” Incredibly, the Democratic majority on the House Judiciary Committee killed it on a party-line vote. Apparently, far-left Democratic Socialists would rather protect criminals than let that bill reach the House floor.
Unbelievable.
Think of how messed up our culture must to be to look at a bill titled “Children Are Not For Sale,” which includes provisions to prevent that exact same thing, and vote no. That vote says children should be for sale to sexually gratify adult perverts.
The cost of fixing this is negligible. Fiscal analysts say Prop 133 might cost the Department of Corrections about $50,000 a year. There is no better use of 50 grand — chicken feed in a $47 billion budget — than keeping adults who buy children behind bars until they die.
Legislators tried to encourage more human trafficking
Anyone who thinks the pro-sex-crime politicians mean well — maybe they’re just ignorant — should consider what Democratic legislators tried at the start of this year’s session.
Senate Bill 97 would have wiped out every state law against prostitution, including soliciting and patronizing prostitution and keeping a brothel. It went further. It declared the matter one of “statewide concern,” which is legislative code for your city and county get no say. If passed, your town wouldn’t have been able to ban it, zone it out, or stop the signage and ads. Colorado would have been the first state in the nation to erase every criminal penalty for buying and selling sex.
There’s no other way to say it: Much of Colorado’s ruling political class is mentally ill.
Sheriffs and cops warned that traffickers hide behind “consent.” A trafficked girl, terrified of the man in the car, will tell an officer she is fine and doing this on her own. Under SB 97, that would have ended the conversation.
The bill died in March. Not because the legislature grew a conscience. It died because enough people found out and got loud.
Remember that. Loud works.
Proposition 135: No surgical sex changes on minors
We don’t let 16-year-olds buy beer. We don’t let them get tattoos without parental consent. We don’t let them sign a cell-phone contract. Yet Colorado law has treated the surgical removal of healthy body parts, in pursuit of a gender identity a child may outgrow, as health care.
Proposition 135 says no surgeon in Colorado may operate on a minor to alter biological sex characteristics. Taxpayers, through Medicaid or any other public money, will not pay for it. It protects the tiny number of children born with genuine, medically verified disorders of sex development. It is narrow. It is humane.
This law will shut down child-abusing quacks with medical degrees. They belong in prison. Vote for the measure. Then stop feeding Children’s Hospital Colorado at the checkout kiosk. Children’s is notorious for chemically castrating children and causing irreversible harm.
Prop 135 covers surgery only. Starve the donations until the hospital stops the chemical transitions and renounces the practice.
As we have shown on several Wayne’s Word podcasts, this ideology does not wait for kids to discover it. Organized adults recruit them. They lure children into “after-school art clubs” that are, in truth, indoctrination sessions that feed children into hospital wards run by unhinged sex-change profiteers.
Tell a confused 12-year-old he’s a biological mistake, and some will believe it. It’s adults in white gowns grooming a child toward irreversible harm; they belong in orange jumpsuits.
Children grow up. Many who struggle with gender in adolescence make peace with their bodies as adults. Surgery slams that door. Prop 135 keeps it open until they are old enough to walk through the decision themselves.
After this law passes, Colorado needs another that stops the chemical castrations at Children’s.
Proposition 134: Girls’ sports are for girls
Girls train to win. They are up before dawn. They miss parties. They focus on cuttin a split second off a 50-yard spring. All with one goal in mind: the trophy.
Now imagine being in that race or on that court against someone who went through male puberty. They have more bone density. Larger hearts and lungs. Longer appendages. More fast-twitch muscle. Paperwork and scalpels do not rewrite physiology. And anyone who has coached, played, or watched a sport knows it.
Colorado girls deal with this every day, and far too many adults are too afraid to defend them. The left will hurt us, so let the girls suffer. So goes the reasoning of those who stand by and do nothing.
When CSU’s women’s volleyball team played for a conference title in 2024, it faced a roster with a male player. Other schools forfeited rather than put their girls across the net from him. Colorado law and state athletic rules have required schools to let boys who identify as girls onto girls’ teams, forcing districts such as D-49 into federal court just to protect their female athletes.
Proposition 134 ends the scam. It defines boys and girls by chromosomes, and requires school and college teams to be male, female, or co-ed. Boys who want to compete have boys’ teams and co-ed teams. Girls keep what the Title IX protections promised 54 years ago.
Every medal a girl loses to a boy is a scholarship, a record, a memory, and a dream taken by adults too cowardly to say the obvious out loud.
Common sense on a ballot
The people fighting these measures call them extreme. They call supporters hateful. Their argument always rests on defining their opponents as monsters, and that’s enough to keep good adults saying nothing.
Be a monster with pride. After all, Shrek, Casper, Grover, the Cookie Monster… They only did good in the world.
Look at the ballot. Lock up child traffickers for life. Don’t mutilate healthy children because the socialist left insists on it. Let girls compete against girls. A generation ago all three would have passed any legislature in America without a speech.
When insanity metastasizes, friendly monsters must intervene.
Is this extreme? Extreme is a political class that kills a bill named “Children Are Not For Sale,” tries to legalize brothels over the objections of every town in the state, and calls the mutilation of minors “health care.”
Somewhere along the way, too many of Colorado’s leaders started caring more about criminals, activists, and ideology than the children they were elected to protect. Nearly 170,000 Coloradans signed petitions so the rest of us could say it: enough!
When your ballot arrives, don’t skip to the bottom. Start there. Find 133, 134, and 135 and make sure they pass.
Vote yes for your daughter. For your granddaughter. For the girl on the other side of town you will never meet who needs somebody — anybody — to stand up for her. Vote yes to stop child sexual mutiliations, which have no place in a developed country.
These measures ask us to write common decency into law. It is the least any voting-aged adult should do for the children.