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      Chants of 'Shame!' After Nebraska GOP Bans Abortion, Trans Youth Healthcare

      Chants of 'Shame!' After Nebraska GOP Bans Abortion, Trans Youth Healthcare

      One lawmaker joined protesters in chanting, "We love trans people, we need trans people, trans people belong here!"

      Julia Conley
      May 19, 2023

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      Transgender and nonbinary Nebraskans and their allies flooded the state Capitol on Friday as GOP lawmakers prepared to pass Legislative Bill 754, the so-called "Let Them Grow Act," which would ban gender-affirming healthcare for trans minors.

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      'You Hate Him More Than You Love Your Own Family,' Nebraska Lawmaker With Trans Kid Says to GOP

      "I am not asking you to sit here through late nights to vote on these bills that we're dragging out," said state Sen. Megan Hunt as a GOP colleague complained about a missed family event. "I'm asking you to love your family more than you hate mine."

      Julia Conley
      May 19, 2023

      Nebraska state Sen. Megan Hunt on Thursday made her latest appeal to her Republican colleagues to block the passage of a ban on gender-affirming healthcare, while expressing anger over lawmakers' complaints about how long the bill has taken to make its way through the Legislature.

      Hunt, who represents the 8th District and announced earlier this month that she was leaving the Democratic Party to become nonpartisan, addressed her fellow lawmakers after a debate that stretched into the night on Tuesday regarding a proposal to attach an abortion ban to the so-called "Let Them Grow Act" (L.B. 574), the ban on transgender healthcare for youths.

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      'This Is Harassment': Lawmaker With Trans Child Hits Back for Conflict-of-Interest Probe

      "This is using the legal system that we have in our state to stop corruption, to increase transparency, to hold government accountable, and using it to harass a member of the Legislature," said state Sen. Megan Hunt.

      Julia Conley
      Apr 27, 2023

      Nebraska state Sen. Megan Hunt on Wednesday said she had received word that the state's Accountability and Disclosure Commission was opening a formal investigation into an alleged conflict of interest stemming from the fact that she has a transgender child and has fought against anti-LGBTQ+ legislation—a probe she said amounted to "harassment."

      Hunt (D-8) addressed her colleagues shortly after receiving a hand-delivered packet from the commission in which the executive director, Frank Daley, explained that the panel was investigating claims in a complaint by a right-wing Omaha lawyer named David Begley.

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