An open letter sponsored by the LGBTQ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign was signed by Apple, Google, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Dow and MassMutual. At least...
of a resurgence of efforts to exclude transgender youth and “criminalize or ban best-practice medical care that is proven to save lives.”
Companies are also working internally to check on any employees who could be affected by the directive, said Jessica Shortall, managing director of Texas Competes. The public showing by corporations is reminiscent of the campaign against Texas’ so-called bathroom bills in 2017. At the time, many in the Legislature wanted to prohibit transgender people from using the bathroom of their choice. Hundreds of companies protested the proposals, insisting they would punish vulnerable residents and harm economic prospects for the state.
“The employers that I’ve talked to by and large are telling me that they have never seen this amount or level of outreach and outrage from their workforce, not even during the bathroom fight,” she said. “So, the business case is very real.”“There are a lot of companies who couldn’t meet our deadlines on this ad who are now asking, ‘Can we get on it?’ So finding ways to engage companies and additional efforts like this is top of our list,” he said. “This is an important chapter in a longer book.
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