LINCOLN — A NEGOP fundraiser and roundtable dialogue initially scheduled at Southeast Community College this week will as an alternative be hosted Thursday on the NEGOP headquarters.

A spokesperson for SCC confirmed Tuesday the occasion won’t be held at any SCC location however has “no further comment,” such because the circumstances that led to the situation change. The ticketed occasion was initially scheduled for SCC’s James J. Huck Continuing Education constructing in Lincoln. The fundraiser contains sponsorships at $500, $1,000 and $1,500.

The Thursday occasion is being sponsored by State Sen. Kathleen Kauth of Omaha and billed as persevering with discussions round Kauth’s Legislative Bill 575, the Sports and Spaces Act. LB 575 would outline Okay-12 loos, locker rooms and sporting groups as male or feminine based mostly on college students’ intercourse at start. 

Kauth will lead the Thursday discussions on LB 575, which she has stated will likely be her precedence invoice subsequent 12 months. Some of Kauth’s colleagues expressed hesitation this summer time, and the invoice has not superior from the Education Committee. However, supporters are working to garner support forward of 2024. 

LB 575 is one in every of 230 bills the American Civil Liberties Union is monitoring nationwide coping with LGBTQ rights in faculties and training. Two Nebraska school districts — Kearney and Norfolk — handed insurance policies this 12 months regulating sports activities and actions just like LB 575.

In a campaign email to volunteers and supporters this week, Kauth blamed the situation change on “the ultra-radical leftist website Seeing Red [Nebraska].” Kauth stated Seeing Red “attacked them [SCC] for having an anti-trans hate speech fundraiser at a public institution.”

Kauth stated calling the occasion an “anti-trans hate speech fundraiser” characterizes Seeing Red’s view, not her personal.

“Anti-trans is the biased, derogatory term used to describe this subject and these bills,” Kauth stated in a textual content, describing LB 575 as defending kids.

Seeing Red Nebraska, a web based group that gives “commentary on Nebraska politics from the left,” stated it introduced consideration to the occasion however didn’t demand its cancellation. SCC policy prohibits the usage of campus services “for commercial use.”

“No matter how much they cry about Nebraskans standing up for their rights in the face of their fascism, they are NOT the victims,” Seeing Red stated in a Tuesday electronic mail to supporters. “They are welcome to hold their little hatefests in the NEGOP office with the shoddy air conditioning and the perpetually broken windows.”

The NEGOP didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Kauth stated she is requesting public information at SCC to see whether or not directors deny all fundraisers from all political events.

Editor’s observe: This story has been revised to right Seeing Red Nebraska’s stance on the occasion.