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“DISCRIMINATION IS BAD FOR BUSINESS
Businesses Call on Governor to Abandon Anti-LGBTQ+ Efforts
Our companies do business, do jobs, and serve customers in Texas. We are committed to creating inclusive environments where our employees can thrive in and out of the workplace. For years, we have stood to ensure that LGBTQ+ people – our employees, customers, and their families – are safe and welcome in the communities in which we do business.
The recent attempt to criminalize a parent for helping their transgender child access medically necessary, age-appropriate health care in the state of Texas is against the values of our companies. This policy creates fear for employees and their families, especially those with transgender children, who may now be faced with choosing to provide the best possible medical care for their children but risk removing those children of child protection services for doing so. This is just one of several efforts
discrimination against transgender youth advancing across the country.
We call on our public leaders – in Texas and across the country – to abandon efforts to write discrimination law and policy. Not only is this wrong, it has an impact on our employees, our customers, their families, and our work.
signed,
Akamai Technologies, Amalgamated Bank, Apple, BASF Corporation, Ben and Jerry’s Homemade, Inc, Bottle Rocket, Bounteous, Box, Inc., Capital One, Cisco, Corning Incorporated, Creative Artists Agency, CREDO Mobile, Curology, Dow, Dropbox, Edelman , Electronic Arts, Emerson, Fastly, Folx Health, Gap Inc., Gearbox, Google, GSD & M, H&M US, IBM, ICM Partners, IKEA US, Included Health, Johnson & Johnson, Juniper Networks, Levi Strauss & Co., LinkedIn, Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics, Macy’s, Inc., MassMutual, Match Group, Meta, Microsoft Corporation, Momentive, Neiman Marcus, Patagonia, Patreon, PayPal, Phillips Murrah PC, Pinterest, Plume, Range Media Partners, REI Co-op, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Inc., Shutterstock, State Street, Sustainable Food Policy Alliance, SXSW, Talon Labs, Taxa Outdoors, Texas LGBT Chambers of Commerce, Trillium Asset Management, LLC, Unilever United States, VMLY & R, VMware, Yahoo, Yelp. ”