Good evening, I'm at the Montrose Center here in Houston for a vigil for Persia Amarra Conway, the transgender woman who was found dead in SW Houston. Her family is going to speak the media soon and give us an update.
I hope someone does the math on the magnitude and impact of the fine Streisand Effect these bad actors at the diabetes society and the NIH are creating. 🤦 How many people who otherwise wouldn't even know the journal existed (like me) will now read and share the fiery April 2026 editorial?
And we are live!
Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible
I saw the headlines and read the brief stories that were very short on details. Her name was Persia and she deserves justice. Moved to hear the words from her loving family about her life.
"My emotional response to all this is hard to describe, something between disgust and despair. Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough? If they knew that it would be hard to prove? It’s hard to consider that and not despair."
“We asked the state a simple question: How dead did we have to be to receive healthcare that could save our viable babies and our own lives? Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called us ‘woke.’”
thebarbedwire.com/2026/05/29/k...
5/ For five straight days, she laid in a hospital bed, waiting for her situation to get dire enough that doctors — and the hospital's lawyers — would act.
1/ At 17 weeks pregnant, Emily Waldorf was suddenly faced with a life-threatening situation: Her baby’s foot was dipping out of her cervix.
Doctors told her the longer her cervix stayed open, the higher her risk of infection.
They knew how to treat her. There was one issue … 🧵
“Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?”
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Texas’ attorney general said we weren’t dead enough for an abortion — that our doctors were right to deny us care.
Her case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.
www.propublica.org
Truly impressed by the number of ways you fit Paul Konerko into this piece
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
