LINCOLN — Late-session efforts to restrict public bathrooms to users’ sex at birth and outlaw certain medical care for Nebraska youths with gender dysphoria failed Tuesday and are done for the year.

State Sen. Kathleen Kauth of the Millard area had introduced the measures as Legislative Bill 730, around bathrooms, and LB 732, around puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. She had selected LB 730 as her 2026 priority bill, increasing the chances that Speaker John Arch of La Vista would schedule it. Arch didn’t, so she sought to find another path for both bills. The deadline to find a vehicle is Thursday, but the last legislative trains left the station Tuesday.

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