Republicans target transgender people in ballot initiatives [Video]

COLORADO, USA — Targeting transgender people is a focus of Republican politics in this election year. Conservatives who don’t have the votes at Colorado’s Capitol to pass anything plan to go straight to voters with ballot initiatives.

“We know that a ballot initiative to ban transgender surgeries on minors would not pass in the political climate at the legislature. The Democrats are in a supermajority,”  Darcy Schoening the Colorado GOP Director of Special Initiatives, said.  “Although one party may be in a supermajority in the legislature you have another way to make laws which is to go ahead and file a ballot initiative with the Secretary of the State’s office

Schoening is behind the initiative to try and ban gender-affirming care for minors. The Title …