Transgender-related Initiatives #142 and #160. If it were MAGA, not Gaza, would the media be quiet? Buy green onions at the store ...
Initiatives #142 and #160
Late getting to this, but with it being short notice, I wanted to share it with you in case you wanted to get involved.
There are a pair of initiatives currently out for signature (see both the Complete Colorado link below and the screenshot from the Secretary of State's initiative tracker) dealing with parental notification of a student wanting to change their gender identity and athletes of different genders participating in sports.
Quoting the Complete Colorado article (with links intact):
"The first measure, 'Parental Notification of Gender Incongruence' (currently numbered as Initiative #142) would require K-12 staff to notify parents if their student asked to be identified by anything other than their gender assigned at birth or for information on transitioning. The second measure 'Public Athletics Programs for Minors' (currently numbered as Initiative #160) requires all levels of government-sanctioned, sponsored sports from recreational to K-12 to collegiate to ban anyone from participating in girls’ sports who was not biologically a female."
I'll be honest, I'm somewhat agnostic with regard to efforts like these. Giving you my precise thoughts on the matter would require more typing and space than I want to devote.
What I can say, and part of what motivated me to share this on my site, was a feeling I have that these are issues that need more discussion than we currently have both in our media and MOST DEFINITELY at the Democrat stronghold that has become the state capitol.
We all have our opinions on the issue and that's fine. You or I may overlap a lot or a little in our thoughts on transgender issues. That's fine too.
My hope for these ballot measures would be that, pass or not, they drive some conversation and give the Democrats at the capitol some sense of where everyday Coloradans are on the issue. That this making the ballot and/or its success or failure shows what your average parents think.
As such, I plan to sign the petition for both and will give them considered reading and thought once I see what the final language is for each (if they make the ballot).
If you feel the same, the second link below is to a calendar of signature gathering. Find where and when they'll be near you and sign the petition.
If you feel passionate about this effort, the third link below is how you can signup to be a volunteer signature gatherer.** If you do and you are going to collect in LoganCo, let me know.
**I'll be honest, part of the reason I wanted to share this too is that it's volunteer. A rarity anymore with initiatives.
https://pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2024/06/01/volunteer-effort-underway-to-put-parental-notification-no-boys-in-girls-sports-initiatives-on-ballot/
https://www.protectkidscolorado.org/events/
https://protectkidscolorado.app.neoncrm.com/forms/petition-circulator-intake
What are the chances that the left leaning media will ignore this?
Or, said another way, what would the chances be that if a bunch of red MAGA hat-wearing people showed up outside, say, a county clerk's home or the Secretary of State's home and acted the way the folks in the article below did that it would be breathlessly repeated all over both social media and in their news outlets.
I'm taking bets now, but I wouldn't recommend that you put a lot up if you think they'll report on this.
Just sayin'
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/protestors-clash-israel-gaza-palestine-home-university-colorado-regent-chair/
Buy green onions at the store.
Stick those green onions in your garden bed (as you've done before). Let them grow for two years.
You get one hell of a green onion, and something new (to me anyway): blooms.
The pictures attached are of a green onion I bought for a recipe a couple years back. I cut it down to a nub and stuck said nub in the ground.
I let it grow (having to move it once at the one year mark).
I've done that before and really only let this one go this far due to laziness; I didn't have any new things to learn from it, or so I thought.
Earlier this spring I saw what looked like little yellowish turbans on the ends of the stems and I knew this was going to bloom!
A bloom waiting to open can be seen on the right in the photo that shows another flower cluster about to erupt from its husk on the left.
The other photo shows that same cluster starting to flower.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that they would bloom. I'm no expert, but my guess is that green onions are a lot like regular onions in that they are biennial. They have a two year life cycle ending in seeds. If you are going to have seeds, you need flowers first.
I think I'll keep this ride going and see where I end up. Perhaps with some green onion seed to plant out next year?