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Trans health bill advances in Nebraska Legislature

(23 Mar 2023) ASSOCIATED PRESS Lincoln, Nebraska - 21 March 2023 1. Senator Machaela Cavanaugh greeting supporters 2. Senator Kathleen Kauth speaking with group of people 3. Spectators watching legislature debate 4. SOUNDBITE (English) State Sen. Kathleen Kauth, (R) Nebraska: "You know, it's a very, very emotional issue to deal with. As I talked with people around the state, I talked with my constituents, other people's constituents. We've done polling that shows two to one Nebraskans support this. They want to do things to protect children and be sure that these kinds of things are not done before a kid is really, really ready to understand the ramifications." 5. View of legislature from above 6. Crowd gathered in the state capitol 7. View of legislature from floor level 8. SOUNDBITE (English) State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh, (D) Nebraska: "It's not about not having some person or knowing some person, it's about doing the right thing. It's about the fact that the children of this state and the children across the country deserve to have adults stand up for them, to stand up for trans children. It's not about who I know or who I love." 9. Front of legislature from floor level 10. Exterior view of the Nebraska state capitol STORYLINE: The Nebraska Legislature voted Thursday to advance a contentious bill that would ban gender-affirming care for minors, despite threats from two lawmakers that they would filibuster the rest of the session. The vote came on the third day of debate, in which lawmakers angrily accused one another of hypocrisy and a lack of collegiality. With the bill’s advancement, Omaha Sens. Megan Hunt and Machaela Cavanaugh have promised to filibuster every bill that comes before lawmakers for the rest of the 90-day session. Hunt took to the floor of the Legislature on Wednesday to confess that the debate is deeply personal for her, because her teenage son is transgender. She called the bill an affront to her as a parent and called out by name lawmakers she would hold accountable if they vote to advance it. The proposal had caused tumult in the legislative session long before debate began on it earlier this week. It was cited as the genesis of a nearly three-week, uninterrupted filibuster carried by Cavanaugh, who followed through on her vow in late February to filibuster every bill before the Legislature — even those she supported — declaring she would “burn the session to the ground over this bill.” She stuck with it until an agreement was reached late last week to push the bill to the front of the debate queue. Instead of trying to eat time to keep the bill from getting to the floor, Cavanaugh decided she wanted a vote to put on the record which lawmakers would “legislate hate against children.” The Nebraska bill, along with another that would ban trans people from using bathrooms and locker rooms or playing on sports teams that don’t align with the sex listed on their birth certificates, are among roughly 150 bills targeting transgender people that have been introduced in state legislatures this year. Introduced by Republican Sen. Kathleen Kauth, a freshman lawmaker, the bill would outlaw gender-affirming therapies such as hormone treatments, puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgery for those 18 and younger. The purpose of the bill, she has said, is to protect youth from undertaking gender-affirming treatments they might later regret as adults, citing research that says adolescents’ brains aren’t fully developed. AP video shot by: Margery Beck =========================================================== Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...