Microsoft, EA, and Gearbox are among a number of companies which have signed a letter asking public leaders, including Texas Governor Greg Abbott, to “abandon anti-LGBTQ+ efforts.” The letter was signed by 65 companies and was shared in the Dallas Morning News on Friday, March 11th. It comes in the wake of a move by Governor Greg Abbott to have the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services investigate instances of transgender children receiving healthcare. “The recent attempt to criminalise 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,” the letter reads. “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,” the letter continues. “It’s not just wrong, it has an impact on our employees, our customers, their families, and our work.”As tweeted by the Human Rights Campaign, which coordinated the letter (thanks, Eurogamer), over 60 companies have signed and joined the call for an end of “discriminatory efforts against trans youth and all LGBTQ+ people” — with Microsoft, EA, and Gearbox among them.
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