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THE BIG FOUR’S COLORADO BLUEPRINT: How Four Wealthy Donors Flipped a Red State (and Artificially Accelerated Transgender and Gender Identity Policies Through Massive Funding, Not Grassroots Momentum)
Picture Colorado in the summer of 2004: a solidly Republican state where the GOP controlled the governor’s mansion, both legislative chambers, most congressional seats, and key statewide offices. Four wealthy Democrats: Tim Gill, Pat Stryker, Jared Polis, and Rutt Bridges, gathered quietly and launched what they called “The Blueprint.” It wasn’t a spontaneous uprising of everyday voters but a calculated, venture capital-style operation funded by their personal fortunes. As detailed in the 2010 book 'The Blueprint' by Adam Schrager and former Republican legislator Rob Witwer, the 2014 documentary 'Rocky Mountain Heist', and Jennifer Bilek’s 2020 First Things article “The Billionaires Behind the LGBT Movement,” this effort first seized political power for the Democrats in recent times in Colorado. Then it built a sophisticated funding machine that critics say unnaturally and artificially propelled transgender and gender identity policies forward: not through broad, organic grassroots support from ordinary people, but through coordinated billions from a handful of ultra-wealthy donors operating largely out of public view.
What started as targeted electoral spending evolved into a top-down philanthropy network that amplified “gender identity ideology” globally and in Colorado law. Early gay rights efforts had roots in small, community-driven groups facing real stigma. After gay marriage become legal, the push for transgender policies appeared to be a natural next step - but it was heavily engineered by elite money, secretive strategy sessions, and international channels. The result? Rapid policy changes that many feel outpaced public consensus.
The Gang of Four and the 2004 Electoral “Heist”
The group, nicknamed the “Gang of Four” or “Four Horsemen", bypassed traditional party structures by forming the Colorado Democracy Alliance. They funneled millions through 527 independent-expenditure groups, voter-turnout operations, and aligned nonprofits, treating politics like a startup investment.
- Tim Gill, Quark software founder, sold his stake in 1999 for about $500 million. Motivated by Colorado’s 1992 Amendment 2 (an anti-gay measure later overturned), he endowed the Gill Foundation with roughly $200 million (inflation-adjusted) for LGBT causes. It has since granted hundreds of millions more to the transgender cause.
- Pat Stryker, medical-device heiress to Stryker Corporation, channeled funds through her Bohemian Foundation.
- Jared Polis, openly gay ProFlowers entrepreneur (now Colorado’s governor since 2019), and Rutt Bridges, software & petroleum entrepreneur, completed this quartet.
In 2004, their donations overwhelmed Republicans: Stryker spending over $850,000, Gill nearly $775,000, Polis and Bridges over $400,000 each. Of $3.6 million in 527 organizations spending, nearly two-thirds came from these four. Democrats flipped both legislative chambers, for the first time in decades. By 2006, they added the governorship and more seats. Total early spending exceeded $20 million, locking in a Democratic “trifecta” that has endured for two decades.
'The Blueprint' explains the mechanics in plain terms: dubiously-funded nonprofits, targeted ads, and ground games that caught the GOP flat-footed. The 'Rocky Mountain Heist' documentary calls it a “heist” by a “shadowy cabal,” visualizing a “blue blob” spreading from Colorado as a warning of national replication.
The Funding Pipeline: From Electoral Power to LGBT Philanthropy
Bilek’s article ties this political takeover directly to LGBT advocacy. Gill and Pat Stryker, with the two other wealthy philanthropists used “ruthless political strategies” to turn Colorado blue while directing roughly half a billion dollars into groups advancing LGBT agendas. Gill introduced Pat’s brother Jon Stryker (openly gay man) at the 2015 GLSEN Respect Awards, recalling how they had “plotted, schemed, hiked and skied together” while “punishing the wicked and rewarding the good.”
Jon Stryker founded the Arcus Foundation in 2000. It poured $58.4 million into LGBT programs from 2007–2010 alone; with Jon personally giving over $30 million from Stryker stock. The family company, started by their grandfather, hit $25.1 billion in annual revenue in 2025 (up 11.2% from 2024), with deep roots in surgical supplies and medical tech. Bilek highlights this medical industry backdrop as relevant context for the scale of later funding priorities.
The Artificial Pivot from Gay Rights to Transgender and Gender Identity Push
Here is where the “not grassroots” reality becomes clearest. Early gay-rights activism grew organically from small communities facing discrimination. But after same-sex marriage victories, the focus shifted dramatically to transgender issues and gender identity ideology. Bilek documents how Arcus and Gill networks built on the Colorado donors’ infrastructure artificially accelerated this through top-down philanthropy, not widespread public demand or bottom-up organizing.
In 2008, Arcus hosted a key meeting in Bellagio, Italy, with 29 international leaders (including Jon Stryker). Michael O’Flaherty (rapporteur for the 2006 Yogyakarta Principles, which applied international human rights law to sexual orientation and gender identity) attended. Bilek notes the Principles “planted the seeds to bring in and attach gender-identity ideology to our legal structures.” O’Flaherty, a former UN Human Rights Committee member, is now Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, in office at his new job since April 2024, based in Strasbourg.
From Bellagio emerged the LGBT Movement Advancement Project (MAP) to coordinate advocacy on gender identity in law, education, and culture. The LGBTI Core Group, an informal UN-linked network of member states (including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, and the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights) formed with Arcus-funded participants like OutRight Action International. Arcus also backed the U.N with funding, alongside Amnesty International and GLSEN. Grants targeted Transgender Europe, ILGA, the Transgender Law Center, ACLU, Center for American Progress, and the 2015 Global Trans Initiative (at least $20 million committed and surpassed). These programs trained activists in “political activism, leadership, transgender law, religious liberty, education, and civil rights.”
The pattern is clear: This is not a natural evolution driven by everyday people. It is a billionaire-orchestrated infrastructure with half a billion spent in Colorado alone, plus hundreds of millions more donated strategically globally from Arcus and Gill, that manufactured rapid cultural and policy acceptance. Public perception framed it as organic “progress,” as meant, but the funding records, donor quotes, and coordinated meetings reveal a top-down strategy using wealth to bypass traditional grassroots organizing.
Colorado as the Proof: Policies Under Governor Polis
With the political safe haven secured, one of the original Four, Jared Polis, became governor in 2019. The Democratic trifecta delivered swift transgender policies:
- 2019 (Jude’s Law / HB 19-1039): Simplified gender marker changes on birth certificates (M/F/X) with no surgery, doctor’s note, or court order required; banned conversion therapy for minors.
- 2025 (Kelly Loving Act / HB 25-1312): Signed by Polis on May 16, 2025 (effective October 1, 2026), it expands anti-discrimination laws to treat intentional deadnaming or misgendering as discriminatory in workplaces, schools, and public settings; eases name/gender document changes.
- Early 2026: Bills advanced to seal minors’ name-change records for privacy.
These built directly on the donor-funded base. What feels unnatural to many was how quickly policies advanced once the money secured the levers of power. It also bring up the ethics and moral foundation of a governor like Jared Polis, who seems to have funded himself to immense power with false equivalence to an organically elected official.
The Deceit Debate: Manufactured Momentum vs. True Civil Rights
Trans rights activists call the moves of the Big Four savvy advocacy for equality. Opponents argue they are inherently deceptive. The trans/gender identity movement publicly appears as grassroots civil rights evolution. In reality, it seems driven by a tiny circle of billionaires using secretive roundtables, dark money, and philanthropy to scale ideology (including UN human rights channels), like they manipulated Colorado’s politics. The half-billion-dollar figure, Gill’s “plotted and schemed” quote, Arcus’s medical-fortune ties, and the Bellagio-to-UN pipeline all point to manufactured momentum rather than broad societal demand. Colorado served as the perfect laboratory before national and global export.
The Legacy of Deceit:
Two decades on, Colorado remains Democratic-controlled. The model inspired donor networks elsewhere. Gill and Arcus foundations continue granting millions annually. U.S. LGBTQ philanthropy totaled $209.4 million in 2023, with trans-specific funding still prominent. Polis is still governor of colarado, though his term ends in November 2026 and cannot be elected again. Whether you see the Big Four as visionary or elite operators, their 2004 effort of electoral flip plus sustained, targeted use of millions of dollars, clearly and unnaturally accelerated transgender and gender identity policies far beyond what organic grassroots movements alone could have achieved. It remains a case study in how concentrated wealth can reshape law, culture, and international norms. The question is, what are you going to do about it? Stay silent as the transgender industry and those standing to profit sway policy, or righteously fight the power?
REFERENCES (verified as of April 2026)
1. Schrager, Adam, and Rob Witwer - The Blueprint* (2010).
2. Rocky Mountain Heist (2014).
3. Bilek, Jennifer @bjportraits: “The Billionaires Behind the LGBT Movement.” published in First Things, January 21, 2020.
4. Arcus Foundation grant records and Global Trans Initiative updates (2007–2025).
5. Stryker Corporation 2025 revenue annual results
6. Colorado legislative records: Jude’s Law (2019); Kelly Loving Act (HB 25-1312, signed May 2025)
7. Council of Europe: Michael O’Flaherty Commissioner records and 2026 activities.
8. Gill Foundation and LGBTQ funders tracking reports (2023–2025).
All details cross-checked against public records, foundation filings, legislative histories, and recent reporting for accuracy.
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John Malkovich thinks wearing a skirt somehow makes him less of a man and "non-binary". He is taking the saying "clothes maketh the man" literally. It would be much braver to wear skirts and sandals and everything without pretending not to be a man, John.
This man in the posts ultimately did not kill himself, but had psychiatric issues that were not addressed by a doctor castrating him and inverting his penis at the altar of gender ideology. It appears his mental health actually worsened after his mutilative surgeries. There is no proof "gender-affirming healthcare" "saves lives" or is "medically necessary". All evidence points the opposite way. Mutilation is not healthcare. State governor @jaredpolis and Attorney General Phil Weiser @pweiser are misusing the law to make Coloradan taxpayer fund this for minors. Don't want blood on your hands? Vote YES! on Prop 135 to prevent your money funding these atrocities on kids, #Colorado! Don't be complicit in state-mandated sexual mutilation of minors!
#COpolitics #donoharm
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We gonna let em know!
To vote YES YES YES on 133, 134, 135!
✅ YES to Protecting Kids from Child Sex Trafficking
✅ YES to Protecting Girls' Sports & Locker Rooms
✅ YES to Protecting Kids from Sex Rejecting Surgery
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And who exactly conducted this peer review of clinical standards that contains an entire chapter on Eunuch as a valid gender identity requiring eunuch-affirming castration?
What team of neutral trustworthy experts peer-reviewed the non-binary chapter that says people should have the right to customize their bodies in whatever way they choose — such as nullification surgeries so the body has no external sex characteristics or bigenital surgeries if a person wants both sets of genitals?
And who peer-reviewed the hasty post-publication removal of almost all the lower age limits from the adolescent chapter because Admiral Rachel Levine demanded it purely for political purposes?
The very idea that WPATH's SOC8 is peer-reviewed is absolutely hilarious.
Of course the truth is, when the guidelines in this field were actually examined in a peer-reviewed systematic review as part of the Cass Report, the conclusion was that WPATH and the Endocrine Society had engaged in a process of circular citations to manufacture the illusion of consensus when their recommendations are built upon nothing but ideology and the flimsiest of evidence.
This led Cass to conclude that WPATH's standards, and all built upon them, "lack developmental rigour."
These fanatics are fully deserving of all the language I used in the podcast. And much much worse.
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My school district has a policy outlining protocol for "formal gender transition at school."
It is an instruction manual for transing kids at school.
It's absolutely everywhere, and it's not a coincidence.
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"Gender-affirming" procedures are the new lobotomies scandal, brought to you by similar doctors on a much larger scale and backed by billionaires, massive corporations and entire political parties.
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On the sixteenth of December 1960 a twelve-year-old boy was put on a table in a San Jose hospital, given electric shocks until he was unconscious, and had an ice pick hammered through the thin bone above each eye and swept from side to side through the front of his brain, because his stepmother had told the doctor he was defiant. The doctor's fee was two hundred dollars.
Howard Dully was a big, clumsy, daydreaming boy whose mother had died when he was five, and his father had married a woman called Lou who could not stand him. She took him to six psychiatrists. All six told her the problem was not the boy. The seventh was Walter Freeman, who had performed more lobotomies than any man alive, who drove between state hospitals in a van he called the lobotomobile doing them by the dozen in an afternoon, with no gloves and no surgical training, and who had once done twenty-five in a day. Freeman's notes on Howard, which Howard did not read for forty-four years, record the symptoms. He objects to going to bed. He turns the lights on when there is broad daylight. He does not react to love or to punishment. He has a savage streak. On that evidence, and Lou's signature, and two hundred dollars, Freeman wrote that the boy would benefit from a transorbital lobotomy and did it four days later.
Howard remembers the table. He remembers waking with two black eyes and a fever and no idea what had been done to him, because nobody told him, then or ever. His father never spoke of it. Lou put him into a state institution the following year, and the boy with the holes in his brain spent the next forty years in and out of asylums, juvenile halls, a jail, halfway houses and the street, drinking, drifting, never quite able to say why he was the way he was, with a photograph that existed somewhere of a doctor in a suit standing over a child with a steel spike in each eye socket.
At fifty-six, driving a school bus, he went to find out. He found his file in Freeman's archive at a university in Washington, in the doctor's own handwriting, and read for the first time what his stepmother had said and what the doctor had agreed to. He went to see his father, who was eighty, and asked him why he had let it happen, and his father said he had been bullied into it. Howard told the story on the radio in 2005 and five million people listened to a man weep over a piece of paper.
Walter Freeman was not a quack. He was a professor of neurology, the man who had brought the lobotomy to America, and the operation had won its inventor the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949. The journals published him. The hospitals booked him. The newspapers called it a miracle. He did it to three and a half thousand people, nineteen of them children, and he kept doing it until 1967, when a patient died on the table and the hospital took his privileges away, and he spent his last years driving the country in the van looking up his old patients to prove it had worked.
That is what settled science looked like from inside, to a twelve-year-old. A mother's complaint, an expert's confidence, a procedure with a prize behind it, two hundred dollars, and a lifetime nobody could give back.
The same institutions now tell you what your child should eat, in the same voice, with the same certainty, and the leaflet has a logo on it. Howard Dully is in his seventies and still cannot say what was taken. Nobody ever apologised.
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10 MORE DAYS until Coloradans send a clear message: We are DONE watching our legislature refuse to protect kids.
WE THE PEOPLE are going to do it ourselves. 💪🏼
Tell everyone you know to vote YES on 133, 134 & 135 — and TURN IN YOUR BALLOT! 🗳️✅
Hey #MedTwitter, this woman is being arrested at a stadium for wearing a shirt saying there are only two sexes. There are only two sexes. The trans industry has captured our public and private institutions to the point arrests are being even for peaceful dissent. Unless we en masse admit this and resist, they are literally coming for the truth. Any doctor with a shred of morals couldn't pretend "gender idenity" is an objective measure of anything. We urge you to speak out and be a part of the resistance to the biggest psyops and medical crime in history that is gender ideology.
Just got forcibly kicked out of a Portland Thorns game because people were hitting my group with trans flags over our feminist shirts. Living in the upside down
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@BrandiKruse
You might like your fans but your security guards are about to cost you millions of dollars in a lawsuit. This is unbelievable, completely uncalled for, a massive violation of rights as well as blatant assault (look how she's wrenching Brandi's arm behind her back!!). You've allowed women to be assaulted and violated right during your game in front of thousands. We demand answers and this isn't going away. And it better not simply be "we have released the individuals working that night who were involved”. This is happening more and more and it needs to stop. Everyone has a right to their opinion. Simply wearing a t-shirt with a logo that says XX: XY Athletics is absolutely not grounds for what happened here and has been happening more and more lately. You owe @BrandiKruse a massive apology, compensation, and an explanation to the people of portland, oregon, and America why this is being allowed and encouraged
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I wonder if she would admit someone who disagrees with her?
“Santa Claus does deliver their Christmas presents.”
A Planned Parenthood doctor tries to lecture Matt Walsh on child gender identity and insists even babies understand gender.
Then he asked her about Santa Claus, and it was over.
MICHELLE FORCIER: “There’s research and data that show that babies and infants understand differences in gender. Some children figure out their gender really early...”
WALSH: “Have you ever met a 4-year-old who believes in Santa Claus?”
FORCIER: “Mhm.”
WALSH: “So, this is someone who believes that a fat man is traveling through the sky on a flying reindeer at lightning speed coming down his chimney with presents.”
FORCIER: “Yeah.”
WALSH: “Would you say that this is someone who maybe has a tenuous grasp on reality?”
FORCIER: “They have an appropriate 4-year-old handle on the reality that’s very real for them.”
WALSH: “Agreed. Agreed. But Santa Claus is real for them, but Santa Claus is not actually real.”
FORCIER: “Yeah, well, and but Santa Claus does deliver their Christmas presents.”
WALSH: “Well, yeah, but he’s not real, though.”
FORCIER: “To that child, they are.”
WALSH: “When I see a child who, you know, believes in Santa Claus, and then let’s say this is a boy and he says, ‘I’m a girl.’ This is someone who can’t distinguish between fantasy and reality, so how could you take that as a reality?”
FORCIER: “I would say that as a pediatrician and as a parent, I would say how wonderful my 4-year-old and their imagination is.”
Most 4-year-olds can’t even tie their shoes. We don’t let them cross the street alone, pick their bedtime, or choose what’s for dinner. But she thinks they’re mature enough to decide they’re “in the wrong body.”
The most terrifying part about this lady is that she’s also an Assistant Dean of Admissions at Brown University.
She’s not just affirming fantasy as reality in her own practice. She’s helping hand-pick the next generation of doctors — ones who think just like her.
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The best thing about @glennagoldis being hired by the @FTC is that she will make the culprits of this scandal answer these questions:
1. Define gender identity - medically with proof without using the word gender. If the witness used the word woman or man, she will spend the necessary hours patiently watching her struggle using circular illogic nonsense until she begs for mercy.
2. She will ask the trans doctors how many gender identities there are, and to define each and every one of them. She is patient. She will wait for @UCSF’s Diane Ehrensaft to go through the infinite number of genders.
3. She will ask how do you know, purveyors of hormones, which kid benefits from “transition” for while asking if it really a short haircut like hers that turns a girl into a boy, as the @AmerAcadPeds published in its report. Edward-Leeper is in private practice still transing kids. She brought here.
It’s always best to prosecute those who started the wicked game.
So much ado about nothing. The state-mandated religion of gender ideology can't define what gender identity is. Very mystical and completely irrelevant to objective reality.
Does this sound like a solid definition?
"Gender identity or expression—Having or being perceived as having a gender-related identity, appearance, expression or behavior, which may or may not be stereotypically associated with the person's sex assigned at birth. Gender identity or expression may be demonstrated by consistent and uniform assertion of the gender identity or any other evidence that the gender identity is part of a person's core identity."
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Kyle Clark, arguably one of the most recognizable faces on TV in Colorado uses typically deceptive trans industry activist framing here to lie to the public. This father of two girls is literally out here saying boys should be allowed to violate girls sports. He also is advocating for medical sexual mutilation of minors. These are the two things the ballots oppose - boys in girls sports, and "transgender surgeries" for children. Why does Kyle Clark support those things? Absolutely creepy sellout. Colorado, VOTE YES! on Prop 133 and 134 to save the kids!
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In case you didn’t understand just how absolutely upside down & insane Colorado is:
📢 The woman who wrote this article is THE PRESIDENT OF THE WOMEN’S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO.
The women’s foundation is arguing that men are women…
And that safeguarding single-sex spaces is a threat to all women…
And that letting girls turn 18 before chopping their healthy breasts off is harmful to women.
🤡🤡🤡
Yes, when the state decides who counts as a woman — and repeatedly defines woman as anyone who identifies as one, including MEN — no woman is safe.
The headline is correct. But Colorado is upside down, clown world, pretend land.
The state is abusing us with gender ideology. And this is DARVO.
VOTE YES on 133, 134 & 135 to protect women. 🗳️ ☑️☑️☑️