Colorado should pass Prop. 134 to protect girls’ teams
Colorado voters decide Proposition 134 on Nov. 3 as Dakota Ridge parents demand answers over girls cut from the volleyball roster.
Colorado should reserve girls’ school teams for girls. At Dakota Ridge High School, four parents say a male player made the girls’ JV volleyball team while eight girls were cut, and they are demanding answers. Fox News Digital reported the parents’ account. On Oct. 14, 2026, Jeffco parent Lindsay Datko posted: “Email sent to @JeffcoSchoolsCo board by a Jeffco Kids First member re: Dakota Ridge HS male on girls’ volleyball team situation. She also thanked Fox News for its story and shared a link to the report.
Fox News Digital reported that an anonymous mother said her daughter played volleyball at Dakota Ridge during her freshman and sophomore years before being cut this season. The mother said, “This year, about 35 plus girls, including my daughter, didn’t make the team, while a transgender player did.” What rule protects those girls’ opportunities?
A second mother said her family open-enrolled her junior daughter at Dakota Ridge specifically for its volleyball program. Shortly before tryouts, coaches asked the setter to switch to right-side hitter, a position she had never played1.
That mother asked the district to investigate through “the eligibility records, tryout evaluations, and coaching communications.”1 On March 13, 2026, the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights concluded that Jeffco violated Title IX by allowing male students to use female bathrooms and other facilities and compete in girls’ sports. OCR gave Jeffco 10 days to accept a proposed resolution requiring sex-based eligibility for sports and biology-based definitions of male and female. Colorado voters will decide Proposition 134, the “Protect Women and Girls Sports Act,” on Nov. 3, 2026; Fox News Digital reports it would designate school teams by biological sex and bar male students from girls’ teams. Girls’ teams should be reserved by sex so families are not left to fight roster decisions one at a time.
“This year, about 35 plus girls, including my daughter, didn’t make the team, while a transgender player did.”
Federal officials found Jeffco violated Title IX
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights concluded that Jeffco violated Title IX through policies allowing access to intimate facilities and sports participation based on gender identity1. The federal finding challenges the rule under which girls must compete, rather than a single coach’s judgment.
OCR said athletic rosters it received indicated that male students “may occupy up to 61 roster positions on girls’ sports teams in the District.”1
OCR’s proposed resolution would require Jeffco to revise or rescind policies governing bathrooms, overnight accommodations and sports2. That would replace transgender ideology as the governing principle with biological reality.
Separately, a Jeffco parent confirmed to Fox News Digital that a complaint about the Dakota Ridge volleyball situation had been filed and a Title IX coordinator was investigating1. The investigation should answer the parents’ specific questions about eligibility and tryout decisions. Correcting the districtwide rule should not wait for another family to demand the records.
Jeffco cites privacy and state rules
Jeffco told Fox News Digital that privacy rules prevent it from confirming, denying or commenting on an individual student’s records or athletic participation. The district said its athletic programs follow Colorado High School Activities Association bylaws and the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act1.
Jeffco also argued that OCR’s “interpretation has no basis in the Title IX regulations and is not supported by any binding court decision.”2 But OCR said Title IX applies regardless of state law or regulation3.
Parents are entitled to challenge an eligibility policy without demanding a child’s private records. Jeffco should explain its rules, investigate the complaint and reserve girls’ teams by sex.
Prop. 134 would set sex-based team rules
A yes vote would protect girls’ teams with sex-based eligibility.
Jeffco should answer the Dakota Ridge parents’ questions; voters should vote yes.
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