“No one in the world holds a grudge like me. And no one in the world cares less about being petty than me, Omaha Sen. Megan Hunt told fellow senators. “I don’t care – I don&…
, had already carried out an almost three-week filibuster over the bill after warning: “I will burn the session to the ground over this bill.”
“I will not give up on Nebraska children. Failure isn’t an option because, if I fail, I’m failing children, and I’m not going to fail children,”Cavanaugh resumed her filibuster, which she only paused to debate the gender care bill.Day had wept in the chamber Wednesday while reading a letter from a psychologist who claimed the bill “will result in the deaths of transgender and gender diverse adolescents, likely before the end of the school year.
“We want to get these kids every opportunity to let their body grow, to let their brain grow, to let things develop more fully and work through the issues they’re experiencing” before irreversible treatment, she said. The Nebraska Legislature is currently made up of 32 registered Republicans and 17 registered Democrats — just enough for the minority to block bills they don’t like if they stick together.
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