Nebraska state Senator Machaela Cavanaugh has filibustered every single piece of legislation that has come to the floor over a bill that would ban doctors from providing gender-affirming medical care to minors.
I can if somebody else is willing to speak.No, I haven’t been doing it all myself. There is a contingent of other people who oppose LB 574, who have been standing up and helping me prior to this week’s debate. If the bill moves forward [on Thursday], that group is going to grow.Yes to both. There are people in my life that I care about, for whom just seeing legislation like this is harmful. But, really, at the end of the day, this isn’t about my own personal experience with the trans community.
I was going to ask if you knew if this bill was written by the sponsor, Sen. Kathleen Kauth, [who sponsored another anti-trans bill this year], or if it was distributed by a group that is advancing this type of legislation in multiple states? Do you know? Well, I would say that they’re very displeased with me. They’re very vocal in their feelings about me on the floor of the legislature.
I’ve heard Nebraska described as one of the least-polarized legislatures in the country. Is this the first anti-trans bill that the body has considered? What’s kept Nebraska out of the culture wars until now and what’s changed? I have heard from several colleagues who do not support this legislation, who actually oppose the tenets and the principle of the legislation, but, apparently, and we’ll see [Thursday]. I hope that I’m wrong, but from what they’ve been saying publicly they are too weak to stand by their own principles.
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