Nebraska Democratic state Sen. Megan Hunt is on a crusade. And she wants everyone to know it.
Hunt has decided to filibuster the last two and a half months of the Nebraska legislative session to block the passage of a bill that would prevent “gender-affirming care” for minors. Listening to Hunt, who has a transgender “son,” you might think the GOP was planning mass murder.
State Sen. Megan Hunt (D), speaking directly to Republicans, reaffirms vow to filibuster all legislation if #NEleg anti-trans bill passes:
"No one in the world holds a grudge like me. And no one in the world cares less about being petty than me. I don't care. I don't like you." pic.twitter.com/IBvOV3g5ey
— The Recount (@therecount) March 23, 2023
The bill would ban gender surgeries and the prescription of hormones to minors. But for Hunt and other Nebraska Democrats, the bill is going to murder children.
“I will burn the session to the ground over this bill,” warned state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh.
I will not give up on Nebraska children.
Failure isn’t an option because, if I fail, I’m failing children, and I’m not going to fail children.
Are you with me? #DontLegislateHate pic.twitter.com/AygTyPYwro
— Senator Machaela Cavanaugh (@senatormachaela) March 23, 2023
Hunt and her colleagues were just getting warmed up.
“If this bill passes, all your bills are on the chopping block, and the bridge is burned,” Hunt warned the chamber.
“We have made it clear that this is the line in the sand,” Hunt said to lawmakers on Thursday.
“People have said, ‘What if we go after your bills? What if we put a bunch of bills introduced by progressives up on the agenda? Are you going to filibuster those, too?’ Yes, because we’re not like you,” Hunt explained. “We have a principle and a value that actually matters that much to us that we’re willing to stand up for.”
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Are we allowed to look at such nobility, such greatness in the eye? Perhaps we should have the Republicans in the Nebraska legislature knee-walk into the chamber while averting their gaze?
Apparently not.
“Don’t say hi to me in the hall, don’t ask me how my weekend was, don’t walk by my desk and ask me anything. Don’t send me Christmas cards ― take me off the list,” Hunt warned. “No one in the world holds a grudge like me, and no one in the world cares less about being petty than me. I don’t care. I don’t like you.”
Oh, sure. I’ll take her name off my Christmas card list right away, you bet.
This chick really wants to butcher the bodies of little kids, like she gets a royalty on it or something. https://t.co/Z8j1cH1IzZ
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) March 24, 2023
The topper may have come when another Democratic female legislator broke down in tears after reading a letter from a psychologist.
On Wednesday, Day cried in the chamber while reading a letter from a psychologist who said the bill “will result in the deaths of transgender and gender diverse adolescents, likely before the end of the school year.”
“I want all of you to go into the rotunda and look into the eyes of those parents and tell them that you’re voting for this bill knowing that it could potentially kill their child,” Day said with tears.
Sen. John Fredrickson, the first openly gay man elected to the Nebraska Legislature, also cried in the chamber before reading a letter from a constituent who said that without gender-affirming care, her son would likely have taken his own life as a teenager.
Just as an aside: there is no evidence that “gender-affirming care” improves the mental health of children. Teens are usually suffering from comorbidities unrelated to gender dysphoria and are still at risk even if they receive treatment.
But inconvenient facts like that can be ignored in service to the greater good. The fact is, Megan Hunt is a new kind of radical nutcase. A small-minded, bitter, closed-off white woman. If I were the Nebraska child services, I would investigate her to determine how much she influenced her “son’s” gender dysphoria.
This is a woman looking for a cause, and she has apparently found it.
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