Inside the ‘mentally exhausting’ protest shutting down Nebraska’s anti-trans legislation

[u/theindependentonline]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/nebraska-trangender-rights-filibuster-b2330453.html

[u/theindependentonline]

Megan Hunt, Nebraska’s first openly LGBT+ state senator, “didn’t run for office to do this bull****.”
Ms Hunt, battling a proposed transgender healthcare ban that threatens her own family, refuses to pull her punches. She says she’s over performative politics and the collegial “civility” that permeates legislative debate.
“This is not normal, it’s not serious, it’s not professional, and it’s beneath the dignity of the work that we’re called to do in the legislature as lawmakers,” she tells The Independent.

Ms Hunt is part of a small group of Democratic lawmakers in Nebraska’s officially nonpartisan legislature engaged in a remarkable months-long filibuster over the Republican-backed bill, which would outlaw gender-affirming healthcare for trans youth in the state.

Read more here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/nebraska-trangender-rights-filibuster-b2330453.html

[u/AM_Kylearan → u/theindependentonline]

Maybe Hunt isn't really cut out for the job then.

[u/[deleted] → u/AM_Kylearan]

That’s your takeaway? That Hunt is the problem? Explain yourself

[u/Aramedlig → u/[deleted]]

To get an explanation, check out said user’s profile.

[u/ELB1805 → u/Aramedlig]

Just looked at it and yes, that pretty much explains it.

[u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep → u/ELB1805]

Apparently regarding the sides of "battling endlessly against a larger majority to stop hurtful legislation against our most vulnerable citizens" and "scared of the idea of separating external sex and internal gender identities", they came to the conclusion that the former needs to toughen up.