威尔·格雷夫斯（WILL GRAVES） 偏左翼的华盛顿州和科罗拉多州的选民批准了旨在禁止跨性别运动员参加学校认可赛事的举措。
WILL GRAVES Voters in left-leaning Washington state and Colorado have approved measures designed to ban transgender athletes from participating in school-sanctioned sports.
华盛顿州的第638号动议获得了超过56%的选票，将阻止出生时生理性别为男性的学生参加指定给女性运动员的赛事。该动议还要求想要参加女子体育赛事的运动员出示一份由医疗保健提供者出具、核实其性别的声明。
Measure 638 in Washington, which had more than 56% of the vote, will prevent students who were assigned male at birth from participating in sports designated for female athletes. The measure also requires athletes wanting to play in female sports to produce a statement from a health care provider verifying their gender.
科罗拉多州的第134号提案将要求教育机构和体育协会将体育运动指定为男性、女性或男女混合。该提案获得了52%选民的支持，还将限制运动员只能参加与其出生时生理性别相符的体育赛事。
Proposition 134 in Colorado will require educational institutions and athletic associations to assign sports as male, female or coed. The proposal, which was supported by 52% of voters, will also limit athletes to playing in sports in the gender they were assigned at birth.
这些投票发生在民主党领导的州长办公室和立法机构拒绝颁布类似禁令的州，而此类禁令在共和党领导的州已成为常态。
The votes came in states where Democratic-led governors’ offices and legislatures have declined to enact the kind of bans that have become the norm in Republican-led states.
禁令的支持者决定通过将该议题付诸选票来迫使人们表态，投票结果表明，保守派曾经在文化战争中用作分化手段的议题，如今已成为少数获得两党支持的议题之一。
Supporters of the bans decided to force the issue by putting it on the ballot, and the results indicate that what conservatives once used as a wedge issue in the culture wars has become one of the few to receive bipartisan support.
“这是迟早会发生的，因为那些州的政客一直在忽视基层选民，”杜克大学法学院教授多里安·兰贝莱特·科尔曼（Doriane Lambelet Coleman）说。“而且，正如我们在周二所看到的，这种忽视不会长久。其他蓝色州是否会加入华盛顿州和科罗拉多州的行列，取决于当地的政治文化以及双方倡议组织调兵遣将的能力。”这些投票表决正值同一选举周期，当时亚利桑那州选民选择扩大2022年一项法律最初制定的限制规定。
“This was always coming because politicians in those states have been ignoring their constituencies on the ground,” said Doriane Lambelet Coleman, a professor at Duke Law School. “And, as we saw on Tuesday, there’s only so long that can work. Whether other blue states join Washington and Colorado depends on local political culture and on the ability of the advocacy groups on both sides of the issue to marshal their troops.”The passages came during the same election cycle in which Arizona voters chose to expand restrictions initially outlined in a 2022 law.
第318号提案将禁止跨性别女孩在所有学校和体育协会参加女子体育赛事——她们此前已被禁止在公立学校参加此类赛事——并限制跨性别者只能使用与其出生时生理性别相符的卫生间和其他私人空间。
Proposition 318 will prohibit transgender girls from participating in female sports in all schools and athletic associations — they were already barred from doing so in public schools — and limit transgender people to using bathrooms and other private spaces to the gender they were assigned at birth.
该提案还要求运动员的“性别”须反映其出生证明上登记的性别，并允许运动员起诉违反扩大后法律的学校和协会。
The proposition also requires an athlete’s “sex” to reflect what they were assigned on their birth certificate and allows athletes to sue schools and associations that violate the expanded law.
内布拉斯加州此前已实施跨性别运动员禁令，在通过第442号动议后，该州将该禁令写入了州宪法。该动议要求学校将体育项目指定为男性、女性或男女混合，并禁止出生时生理性别为男性的学生参加女子体育赛事。
Nebraska, which already had a ban in place on transgender athletes, codified the ban in the state constitution after passing Measure 442. The measure requires schools to designate a sport as male, female or coed and prohibits students assigned male at birth from participating in female sports.
其他针对跨费者的禁令已诉诸法院。位于纽约市郊外的拿骚县的一项县级禁令周二被上诉法院推翻，这对曾担任县行政长官并大力推动该立法的共和党州长候选人是一个挫折。
Other transgender bans have gone to the courts. A county-level ban in suburban Nassau County outside New York City was struck down by an appeals court Tuesday in a setback to the GOP nominee for governor, who championed the legislation while serving as county executive.
华盛顿州和科罗拉多州的投票结果发生在美国总统唐纳德·特朗普签署题为《将男性排除在女子体育运动之外》的行政令不到两年之后，该行政令赋予了联邦机构广泛的自由裁量权，以确保接受联邦资助的实体在符合特朗普政府观点的情况下遵守《第九条》，该观点将“性别”解释为某人出生时被指定的性别。
The results in Washington and Colorado came less than two years after President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” which gave federal agencies wide latitude to ensure entities that receive federal funding abide by Title IX in alignment with the Trump administration’s view, which interprets “sex” as the gender someone was assigned at birth.
各州跨性别禁令的扩大——如今全国过半数州都有某种形式的跨性别运动员禁令——以及其他受保守派支持的议程（如俄亥俄州等地对选民身份证明的要求）的通过，凸显出一些受特朗普支持的政策确实引起了跨政治谱系选民的共鸣。但在伊朗战争等更受瞩目的问题上的普遍不满，在期中选举中产生了更大的影响，选举最终以民主党获得众议院和参议院控制权告终。
The expansion of transgender bans in individual states — now well over half the country has a transgender athlete ban of some kind — as well as the passage of other conservative-backed agendas like voter ID requirements in places like Ohio highlight that some Trump-backed policies do resonate with voters across the political spectrum. But widespread discontent over more high-profile issues like the war in Iran had a far greater impact during midterm elections that ended with Democrats gaining control of the House and Senate .
跨性别相关的投票也有所限制。在密苏里州，选民拒绝支持第3号修正案，该修正案本应禁止针对未成年人的性别转变治疗和手术，并废除堕胎权。
There were some limits in the transgender votes. In Missouri, voters declined to support Amendment 3, which would have banned gender-transition treatment and surgeries for minors as well as repealed the right to abortion.
“现实不容否认：贩卖对跨性别者的恐惧是一种注定失败的策略，”GLAAD总裁兼首席执行官萨拉·凯特·埃利斯（Sarah Kate Ellis）在在一份声明中表示。“2026年选举必须载入史册，成为最后一场试图使用这种策略的竞选。”点击此处查看美联社的完整体育报道
“The reality is undeniable: fearmongering about transgender people is a losing strategy,” GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement. “Election 2026 must go down in history as the last campaign to try it.”See AP’s full sports coverage here