LINCOLN- Senator Machaela Cavanaugh faced the threat of censure this week for alleging that some bills in this year's session aim to perpetrate genocide against transgender Nebraskans. Senator Julie Slama offered the motion after Sen. Cavanaugh compared past genocides to the anti-trans bills LB574 and LB575. During debate, Cavanaugh outlined “The Ten Stages of Genocide” as defined by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, which states that “genocide never just happens.”

Sen. Slama warned of her intent to use censure multiple times before doing so. Slama said Cavanaugh was minimizing, “the seriousness and the gravity” of the word “genocide.” Slama later took to twitter saying, "Today’s action is not something I take lightly, but I refuse to sit silently while Senator Cavanaugh compares a bill protecting girls sports to the horrific mass executions of millions of people.”

Speaker Arch did not allow the motion to be excepted at that time and the body went back to debate on LB775. Cavanaugh said she would like to truly debate LB574 and LB575 to show the public who supports these bills. “I want the bloody hands recorded. This is a genocide. This is an assault on a population of people because they are different from you.”

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