Protect Kids Colorado
Parental rights in schools and opposition to gender-ideology curricula and pediatric medical transition in Colorado.
Protect Kids Colorado is a grassroots parental-rights coalition led by executive director Erin Lee, describing itself as parents, grandparents, and concerned citizens working to protect kids and strengthen families in Colorado. It opposes what it calls 'gender ideology' in schools and pediatric medical transition, and is running 2026 Colorado ballot initiatives on girls' sports designation, age restrictions on sex-change surgery for minors, and child sex-trafficking penalties.
Latest posts
We did it! All 3 of our initiatives will be on the ballot in November!! Thank you so much to all of you who volunteered to collect signatures and everyone who took the time to sign!
7mo ago · 141 likes
📢 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE📢 PKC will hold a press conference today — Monday, August 5, at 10AM on the State Capitol west steps to announce the outcome of our 2024 ballot initiative effort and future plans for @ProtectKidsCO. Join us! #protectgirlssports #protectparentalrights https://t.co/K6PXAEWbWD
2y ago · 23 likes
Thank you to KUNC reporter Leigh Paterson for this fair and balanced look at our ballot initiative #142 and the proponents behind it! @Erin4Parents @CPANColorado https://t.co/3XqjqMmdnR https://t.co/Xq6n4NY9ju
2y ago · 16 likes
It’s the last day to help us make public school girls sports female only! Wide Open Saloon Sedalia 4-6pm. King Soopers at 8126 S Wadsworth 2-5pm. Church at Briargate till 4pm at 9550 Otero Ave. #IstandWithAngelaCarini
2y ago · 3 likes
The strongest case
Parents have a legitimate, mainstream right to direct their children's upbringing and weigh in on school curricula and irreversible medical decisions; guarding minors against premature or poorly-evidenced interventions is a concern shared well beyond the political right.
And against
Its ballot language and rhetoric can misstate medical reality — genital surgery on minors is rare — and risk targeting a vulnerable group; its HB25-1312 challenge reframes anti-discrimination protections as compelled speech, a contested legal theory that has not prevailed on the merits.
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On the record
Co-plaintiff in Defending Education et al. v. Sullivan et al., filed May 2025 in the U.S. District Court of Colorado, challenging HB25-1312 (the Kelly Loving Act) on First and 14th Amendment grounds; co-plaintiffs include Defending Education, the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network, and Do No Harm. (The organization's own advocacy litigation.) [source]