Discrimination is Bad for Business

by HRC Staff •

Businesses Call on Governor to Abandon Anti-LGBTQ+ Efforts

This letter was originally published in the Dallas Morning News on Friday, March 11, 2022, signed by more than 60 businesses. Click here to see the original letter.

Our companies do business, create jobs, and serve customers in Texas. We are committed to building inclusive environments where our employees can thrive inside and outside of the workplace. For years we have stood to ensure LGBTQ+ people — our employees, customers, and their families — are safe and welcomed in the communities where we do business.

The recent attempt to criminalize a parent for helping their transgender child access medically necessary, age-appropriate healthcare in the state of Texas goes against the values of our companies. This policy creates fear for employees and their families, especially those with transgender children, who might now be faced with choosing to provide the best possible medical care for their children but risk having those children removed by child protective services for doing so. It is only one of several efforts discriminating against transgender youth that are advancing across the country.

We call on our public leaders — in Texas and across the country — to abandon efforts to write discrimination into law and policy. It’s not just wrong, it has an impact on our employees, our customers, their families, and our work.


Signed,

  • Adobe
  • Akamai Technologies
  • Amalgamated Bank
  • AMN Healthcare
  • Apple
  • BASF Corporation
  • Ben and Jerry's Homemade, Inc
  • Bottle Rocket
  • Bounteous
  • Box, Inc.
  • Capital One
  • Cardinal Health
  • Cisco
  • CME Group
  • Corning Incorporated
  • Creative Artists Agency
  • CREDO Mobile
  • Curology
  • Dow
  • Dropbox
  • Edelman
  • Electronic Arts
  • Emerson
  • Fastly
  • Folx Health
  • Gap, Inc.
  • Gearbox
  • Google
  • GSD&M
  • Gusto
  • H&M US
  • IBM
  • ICM Partners
  • IKEA U.S.
  • Included Health
  • Intel
  • 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 P.C.
  • 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
  • The Walt Disney Company
  • Zendesk
  • Ziff Davis

Can we count you in?

The more people who show they care, including allies and trans and non-binary people who speak up for the most marginalized in our community, the more hearts and minds we will change.

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