For 13-year-old Ricky, compulsive behavior has always been part of his world — hidden, unspoken, carefully managed — until the day his mother walks in on him dressed in his sister’s clothes during her weekly ladies’ lunch.
Voters in Colorado and Washington will decide ballot measures on transgender students in school sports on November 3, 2026. Colorado voters will also weigh a ban on surgeries for minors. Ballotpedia describes Washington's sports initiative as the first statewide measure of its kind to qualify for a ballot in the United States.
Colorado Proposition 134 would require schools and colleges to label every team as male, female or coeducational. It would bar transgender students from teams that match their gender identity. If approved, it would take effect January 1, 2027. The measure does not say how a student's sex would be determined. Supporters and opponents disagree about what that means in practice.
