Nebraska Lawmakers Spar Over Anti-Trans Health Care Bill

Nebraska legislators began a heated debate Tuesday on a bill to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth, with Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh having agreed to end her filibuster. Cavanaugh, a Democrat and supporter of trans rights, had been speaking nonstop for the past few weeks to keep the bill from coming up. “She stuck with it until an agreement was reached late last week to push the bill to the front of the debate queue,” the Associated Press reports. “Instead of trying to eat time to keep the bill from getting...