Nebraska state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh began to filibuster during a meeting on Thursday, in hopes of blocking a bill that would bar minors from receiving gender-affirming health care. “I will burn the session to the ground over this bill,” Cavanaugh said.
bar minors from receiving gender-affirming health care, including puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery. The measure, introduced by state Sen. Kathleen Kauth, a Republican, would also prohibit any institution or provider of such care to minors from receiving state funding.In an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Monday, Cavanaugh said she is trying to make her colleagues choose between bills that target transgender health care and other legislation.
“So I’m just going to practically make sure that my colleagues have to make a choice about what it is they want to do, what our job is,” Cavanaugh told Maddow. “Is our job to legislate hate, or is our job to govern and work on tax cuts and work on the economy? So I’m forcing their hand.” The unicameral Legislature is officially nonpartisan, but Republicans hold 32 seats to Democrats’ 17, one vote shy of being able to end a filibuster.
Cavanaugh said she filibustered even while she had strep throat because the issue of minors being able to access health care “is too important.” “At the end of the day, this is going to hurt children,” she told Maddow. “I don’t care how sick I get. I don’t care how tired I am. I am not going to look back on this moment in time and say I didn’t do everything that I possibly could to fight for and protect children, especially our most vulnerable children, which are trans youth.”
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