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Reporter covering courts, housing, TX lege, and the Austin LGBTQ+ community. Currently @kxan.com Views are my own, sometimes jokes. 🏳️‍⚧ Anti-AI Tips: neasnews @ proton.me muckrack.com/cora-neas/
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The House Republican reconciliation bill will now ban both surgeries and HRT prescription under Medicaid for all Americans. Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect. I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”

Black trans organizations face a different level of treatment compared to their white counterparts. This is the reality. I believe that if we were white, we would receive significantly more support. These are the facts and this is our reality.

Here is our current position. We are on the brink of having to shut down our shelter because we lack the necessary funding to cover electricity and other essential bills. Meanwhile, trans individuals are being unjustly arrested for being unhoused. If you are able to donate to please do

This was one of my stories today for @kxan.com -- the answer is probably not. But only if it is *actually* a Level 4 autonomous vehicle. If Tesla is actually ready for a June pilot, it would represent a wildly massive leap in its AV & AI tech. Key word is "if".

I know this may sound overly charitable, but I think she was answering the question she wanted to hear/came up with in her head

There was a huge fuss raised in the lege about this in March. A day after a Texas "DOGE" meeting, he launched an investigation. It ended yesterday, according to a brief press release.

Trans reporters, the really big and visible ones, they have a strength beyond me. It's incredibly hard to keep up the high level of work as life rapidly changes around us.

friendly reminder my job is hiring a social person in the houston area!

I really hope that I don't die here

The advocates will rally around 12:30 today, where they hope to convince Lt. Governor Dan Patrick to intercede and advance the bill.

Saw the Bob Dylan biopic, my takeaways: - wow he hated women - he made Pete Seeger sad - if I fumbled Joan Baez I'd kms

One dead after bomb explodes outside reproductive center in Downtown Palm Springs thepalmspringspost.com/one-dead-aft...

Wrote up the #txlege Senate State Affairs hearing on HB 229 for @kxan.com -- the bill that would define Texans' sex on official records as based solely on genitals. The bill explicitly calls for intersex people to be categorized into the sex binary at birth. www.kxan.com/news/texas-p...

There's so much news i s2g

My latest for @kxan.com: A surprise lawsuit has been brought by four elected attorneys against Texas AG Ken Paxton. The specific rule they're suing over threatens them with a yet unused removal process if they don't turn over entire case files to the OAG.

About 80% of bills filed in the #txlege House of Reps died at midnight. My look at the numbers & how they compare to last year for @kxan.com:

The "gender identity fraud" bill was one of over one thousand bills in the Texas House that "died" at 12am this morning because they did not pass before a key deadline to become law: #txlege

My wife and I are watching Band of Brothers, and the next episode is my favorite (cajun heartthrob medic)

Wow is it a condition experienced by a group of people? Like a class maybe?

We'll update this one tomorrow morning with final numbers from the House. But, as of an hour ago, about 80% of Texas House bills are poised to die at midnight. #txlege

I got tired of answering #txlege deadline questions, so I wrote up an explainer for @kxan.com: The first big deadline is today; any House bills not passed in the House by midnight, die.

so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?

Andor absolutely contextualizes the character's actions in Rogue One

Any journalist playing footsie with conversion therapy thinks you should be raped straight, or at the very least, that's the cost of doing business, and you should treat them as such.

HB 229, the Texas House Bill enshrining definitions of male and female into law, contains some language that is nearly identical to model legislation from the Independent Women's Forum "Stand With Women Act" model legislation #txlege

Each of these stories is such a delightful hit

SB 1257, which will require insurance companies to cover the "adverse effects" of gender affirming care and cover detransition care, passed the Texas House 82-37. It goes to Gov. Greg Abbott. #txlege

This is the senate version of HB 778

Pope Leo XIV speaks out against AI: ‘A challenge of human dignity, justice and labour’

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My latest for @kxan.com:

Incredible work from @kxan.com Investigative Fellow & Digital Reporter Abigail Jones! Give it a read!!

is mastercard a queer ally? is this tv show my friend? is the catholic pope progressive?

Texas House committees posted their agendas for the next few days, and it appears a lot of anti-trans House bills will die soon.

NEW: ICE deported a family, including two U.S.-born kids, following a traffic stop last week near Dobie Middle School in north Austin, according to multiple sources, including the Texas Civil Rights Project and Immigrant Legal Resource Center. @kxan.com www.kxan.com/news/sources...

Neighbors in an Austin suburb are frustrated by a 16-foot fence around a nearly 7,000 square-foot property, widely reported to be owned by tech billionaire, Elon Musk. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/elon-musk-faces-backlash-over-16-foot-fence-around-austin-suburb-mansion/

Jail records showed he was held on a $2 million bond.

COOL&CREATE's [oops] "All Night of Knights Project" album is the kind of projects I want to see more of. Give me 30+ minutes of the same song remixed by a dozen people

EXCLUSIVE: A police officer questioned the legality of arresting peaceful student protesters without probable cause at a pro-Palestine demonstration at the University of Texas at Austin, audio from body camera footage provided to Rolling Stone shows.