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<\/p>\nNearly 180 Companies Oppose Alarming Effort to Erase Transgender People From Legal Protections<\/b>
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Responding to a rising tide of legislative and administrative attempts to further marginalize transgender, gender non-conforming and intersex people \u2013 detailed in a recent report<\/a> by the New York Times<\/em> on administrative efforts to erase transgender non-discrimination protections through reinterpretation of existing law \u2013 121 additional companies, including 49 enterprise businesses and 73 small and mid-size companies, have joined the Business Statement for Transgender Equality<\/a> since it was first published<\/a> on November 1.<\/p>\n 178 companies in total have now signed the statement, which asserts that diversity and inclusion are good for business, observes that discrimination significantly harms transgender people and imposes enormous productivity costs, and calls<\/a> for full equality for transgender, gender non-conforming and intersex people under the law. The full text of the statement is included below.<\/p>\n The companies that have signed the statement represent more than 7 million employees, have a collective annual revenue of more than $3.2 trillion, and are drawn from a broad range of industries including financial services, consumer products, and technology.<\/p>\n Sixteen LGBTQ+ community organizations, led by Out Leadership and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), have organized the effort to secure corporate signatories. The coalition also includes: Athlete Ally, Freedom for All Americans, GLAAD, GLSEN, Lambda Legal, The Matthew Shepard Foundation, The National Center for Transgender Equality, The National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, The National LGBTQ Task Force, Out & Equal, PFLAG National, The Trevor Project, The Transgender Law Center, and the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF).<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re deeply inspired to see so many of the world\u2019s leading companies speaking with a united voice in support and defense of transgender, gender non-conforming and intersex people. And we\u2019re grateful to every company that\u2019s signed on, including the Out Leadership members who stood up immediately to call<\/a> for this statement. As we continue to see in our work around the world, including at our Summits in Australia last week and Asia this week, the business community is serving as a crucial backstop for hard-earned progress on LGBT+ equality \u2013 because inclusive cultures are more innovative, more productive, and more efficient, and because it\u2019s the right thing to do.\u201d \u2014 Todd Sears, Founder and Principal, Out Leadership<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIn one united voice, the business community is making clear they stand with the transgender community against the Trump-Pence administration\u2019s unconscionable efforts to gut enforcement of existing civil rights protections. These businesses are speaking out at a crucially important moment as the LGBTQ community faces relentless attacks on equality. No matter how hard the Trump-Pence administration continues to try, we will not be erased.\u201d \u2014 Jay Brown, Acting Senior Vice President for Programs, Research, and Training, Human Rights Campaign<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSo often, these discriminatory policies are made in the name of Business, but companies and communities know that discrimination is \u2013 in fact \u2013 bad for business. Millions of Americans who believe in equality for all are watching – and they\u2019re spending and investing based on this value. Transgender people are deserving of employment, equality, and respect, and the companies who have signed this statement know that, and are stronger for it.\u201d \u2014 Erin Uritus, CEO, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates<\/em><\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Business statement for transgender equality<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n November 13, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n We, the undersigned businesses, stand with the millions of people in America who identify as transgender or gender non-binary, or who are intersex, and call<\/a> for all such people to be treated with the respect and dignity everyone deserves.<\/p>\n We oppose any administrative and legislative efforts to erase transgender protections through reinterpretation of existing laws and regulations. We also fundamentally oppose any policy or regulation that violates the privacy rights of those that identify as transgender or gender non-binary, or who are intersex.<\/p>\n In the last two decades, dozens of federal courts have affirmed the rights and identities of transgender people. Cognizant of growing medical and scientific consensus, courts have recognized that policies that force people into a binary gender definition determined by birth anatomy fail to reflect the complex realities of gender identity and human biology.<\/p>\n Recognizing that diversity and inclusion are good for business, and that discrimination imposes enormous productivity costs (and exerts undue burdens), hundreds of companies, including the undersigned, have continued to expand inclusion for transgender people across corporate America. Currently more than 80 percent of the Fortune 500 have clear gender identity protections; two-thirds have transgender-inclusive healthcare coverage; hundreds have LGBTQ+ and Allies business resource groups and internal training efforts.<\/p>\n Transgender, gender non-binary, and intersex people are our beloved family members and friends, and our valued team members. What harms them harms our companies.<\/p>\n We call<\/a> for respect and transparency in policy-making, and for equality under the law for transgender, gender non-binary, and intersex people.<\/p>\n Enterprise Businesses<\/strong><\/p>\n As of November 1, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n Accenture<\/p>\n Adobe Systems Inc.<\/p>\n Airbnb<\/p>\n Altria Group<\/p>\n Amalgamated Bank<\/p>\n Amazon<\/p>\n American Airlines<\/p>\n Apple<\/p>\n Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP)<\/p>\n Bank of America<\/p>\n Ben & Jerry’s Homemade<\/p>\n BNY Mellon<\/p>\n Cargill<\/p>\n Cisco Systems Inc.<\/p>\n Citi<\/p>\n Clifford Chance<\/p>\n The Coca-Cola Company<\/p>\n Corning Incorporated<\/p>\n Corteva Agriscience\u2122, the Agriculture Division of DowDuPont<\/p>\n Deutsche Bank<\/p>\n The Dow Chemical Company<\/p>\n E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company<\/p>\n Facebook<\/p>\n Fastly, Inc.<\/p>\n Google<\/p>\n Hogan Lovells<\/p>\n HSBC<\/p>\n IBM Corporation<\/p>\n Intel Corporation<\/p>\n Intuit Inc.<\/p>\n Iron Mountain<\/p>\n JPMorgan Chase & Co.<\/p>\n Levi Strauss & Co.<\/p>\n LinkedIn<\/p>\n Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics<\/p>\n Lyft<\/p>\n Marriott International<\/p>\n MassMutual<\/p>\n MGM Resorts International<\/p>\n Microsoft Corp.<\/p>\n Nike, Inc.<\/p>\n PepsiCo<\/p>\n Replacements, Ltd.<\/p>\n Ropes & Gray<\/p>\n Royal Bank of Canada<\/p>\n S&P Global<\/p>\n Salesforce<\/p>\n Sheppard Mullin<\/p>\n Sodexo Inc.<\/p>\n Splunk<\/p>\n State Street Corporation<\/p>\n TiVo Corporation<\/p>\n Trillium Asset Management<\/p>\n Twitter Inc.<\/p>\n Uber<\/p>\n Warby Parker<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n As of November 13, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n Allen & Overy<\/p>\n AMD<\/p>\n American Express<\/p>\n Asana, Inc.<\/p>\n Atlassian<\/p>\n Best Buy Co. Inc.<\/p>\n BNP Paribas<\/p>\n BounceX<\/p>\n Cardinal Health<\/p>\n Converse, Inc.<\/p>\n Couchbase, Inc.<\/p>\n Cummins<\/p>\n Deloitte LLP<\/p>\n Diageo<\/p>\n Dropbox Inc.<\/p>\n eBay Inc.<\/p>\n Ecolab<\/p>\n Etsy, Inc.<\/p>\n EY<\/p>\n Gamestop<\/p>\n Gap Inc.<\/p>\n GitHub<\/p>\n GSK<\/p>\n Gusto<\/p>\n Hilton Worldwide Inc.<\/p>\n Johnson & Johnson<\/p>\n Kaiser Permanente<\/p>\n Littler<\/p>\n Macmillan<\/p>\n Mastercard<\/p>\n Mercer<\/p>\n Mozilla<\/p>\n Ogilvy<\/p>\n Omnicom Group<\/p>\n Orrick<\/p>\n PayPal<\/p>\n Perkins & Will<\/p>\n Perkins Coie LLP<\/p>\n Progressive Insurance<\/p>\n Quantcast<\/p>\n Sanofi US<\/p>\n Shutterstock, Inc.<\/p>\n Spotify<\/p>\n Square<\/p>\n Squarespace, Inc.<\/p>\n Swiss Re<\/p>\n Tableau<\/p>\n ViiV Healthcare<\/p>\n Workday<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Small and Medium-Sized Businesses<\/strong><\/p>\n As of November 13, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n 7R Media & Expeditions<\/p>\n AdRoll, Inc., dba AdRoll Group<\/p>\n America Competes<\/p>\n Automattic<\/p>\n Bento Box Communications<\/p>\n Betterment<\/p>\n Bizzabo<\/p>\n Brain+Trust Partners<\/p>\n Branch Metrics<\/p>\n Braze, Inc. (formerly Appboy)<\/p>\n Callen-Lorde Community Health Center<\/p>\n Chef Software<\/p>\n Civis Analytics<\/p>\n Collective Health<\/p>\n Combs Advisory Services<\/p>\n Complete Marketing Systems<\/p>\n Cultivating Change Foundation<\/p>\n Dallas Voice<\/p>\n Dialog Group<\/p>\n Donatti Translation & Interpreting<\/p>\n Elettore<\/p>\n EnFocus Strategies<\/p>\n Fernandez & Company<\/p>\n Five North Chocolate<\/p>\n Foursquare<\/p>\n Freedom QA<\/p>\n GALA NTX<\/p>\n Grand Rounds, Inc<\/p>\n Greater Houston LGBT Chamber of Commerce<\/p>\n Handshake<\/p>\n Headspace<\/p>\n Hootsuite<\/p>\n Intersection<\/p>\n Lab Monkey Communications<\/p>\n Lansky Career Consultants<\/p>\n Lime<\/p>\n Litmus Software, Inc.<\/p>\n Lola.com<\/a><\/p>\n Mango Digital, LLC<\/p>\n MapAnything, Inc<\/p>\n MediaMath<\/p>\n Megawatt Analytics, LLC<\/p>\n Minted<\/p>\n Mitosis Management<\/p>\n Modern Columbus Realty<\/p>\n Momentum Psychological Services, PLLC<\/p>\n Nakanishi Research & Consulting LLC<\/p>\n New Relic<\/p>\n NightSHIFT Communicator’s Network<\/p>\n Nuna<\/p>\n Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)<\/p>\n OutSmart Magazine<\/p>\n Owkin<\/p>\n Patreon<\/p>\n Peloton<\/p>\n Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus<\/p>\n Pivotal<\/p>\n Rathman Consulting & Coaching, Inc.<\/p>\n Rhodes Perry Consulting, LLC<\/p>\n Rudner Law Offices<\/p>\n Safe Connections<\/p>\n Shift Technologies, Inc.<\/p>\n Signal Digital, Inc.<\/p>\n Sprout Social<\/p>\n Strava<\/p>\n Studio 5 – Learning + Development, LLC<\/p>\n SweetRush Inc<\/p>\n Texas Competes Action<\/p>\n The Ally Coalition<\/p>\n TripActions<\/p>\n TripAdvisor<\/p>\n Twilio<\/p>\n Witeck Communications, Inc.<\/p>\n www.hrc.org\/blog\/nearly-180-companies-oppose-effort-to-erase-transgender-people-from-protect?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nearly 180 Companies Oppose Alarming Effort to Erase Transgender People From Legal Protections Responding to a rising tide of legislative and administrative attempts to further marginalize transgender, gender non-conforming and intersex people \u2013 detailed in a recent report by the New York Times on administrative efforts to erase transgender non-discrimination protections through reinterpretation of existing … Continue reading Nearly 180 Companies Oppose Alarming Effort to Erase Transgender People From Legal Protections<\/span>