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8:08Now PlayingNebraska state Senator John Fredrickson leaves the room stunned with a speech that changed the minds of the conservative co-sponsors who created a bill targeting transgender youth, and the bill did not pass after they abandoned it. John Iadarola and Sharon Reed break it down on The Damage Report.
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Conservative cosponsors abandon their own bill after gay politician’s powerful speech
"Nebraska state Senator John Fredrickson is the first out gay man elected to the state legislature. Now, he has another feather in his cap.
After an impassioned speech in opposition to a bill that targeted transgender youth, two of his colleagues changed their minds about the legislation that they had co-sponsored. The measure did not pass out of committee after they did.
The state’s legislature is nonpartisan but breaks into traditional Democrat and Republican divides. As in other states, bills attacking the transgender community have been championed by conservatives."
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