Opponents of gender ideology have achieved a series of wins over the past year securing youth gender-medicine bans and safeguarding girls’ sports that codify such protections and legally recognize states’ authority to enforce their own transgender regulations.

The movement picked up major electoral victories on Tuesday with the passage of five ballot initiatives across four states, including restrictive measures in progressive strongholds such as Colorado and Washington, that will ban biological males in female sports at the state level and prohibit transgender surgical procedures for minors.

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