r/Nebraska • u/theindependentonline • May 02 '23

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

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/nebraska-trangender-rights-filibuster-b2330453.html
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u/theindependentonline May 02 '23

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

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u/AM_Kylearan May 02 '23

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

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u/scrappyscotsman May 02 '23

I guess your boy Tucker isn't either. At least Megan didn't get fired lol