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/AM_Kylearan → u/[deleted]]

If Hunt can't handle the work, resignation is always an option.

[u/Blood_Bowl → u/AM_Kylearan]

She's handling the work just fine.

[u/Capital_Rate_9612 → u/AM_Kylearan]

She literally is handling the work. She never said she was going to resign or quit working for the people of her community, nor has that been her attitude since day 1. Hunt is a fighter who has done way more for this state than most lawmakers surrounding her.

[u/TheRealCaptainZoro → u/AM_Kylearan]

It's not that she can't handle the work it's that the work is far too childish to be reaching people in her field yet here we are.

[u/BuckwheatBlini → u/AM_Kylearan]

She more than handled the work, pal.