Disney shareholders are reportedly putting the company in the hot seat at a scheduled meeting over its transgender employment policies.
At an annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), and the group Do No Harm will confront the Walt Disney Company on the “de-transitioning” issue, claiming the entertainment giant “discriminates based on gender identity.”
In a video posted on X last week, the NLPC – an investor in the Disney company – explained that it will bring up the issue at Wednesday’s meeting.
“Disney pays for gender-transition treatments, but not de-transitioning care, and therefore, discriminates based on gender identity,” a narrator states in the video by the watchdog group that was founded in 1991 to promote ethics.
@Disney #discriminates against #detrans – we will confront them at the company’s annual meeting on April 3 … #Disney #detransition #discrimination @WaltDisneyCo @donoharm @JanuaryDoNoHarm @ChoooCole @RobertIger — WATCH BELOW: pic.twitter.com/491hBPpOhp
— NLPC (@NLPC) March 27, 2024
“The measure asks the company to investigate its discriminatory pay and benefits policies – specifically addressing where employees affected by gender-switching advocacy have been psychologically or medically harmed, without providing remedial care – and reporting to shareholders why such compensation gaps exist at an allegedly tolerant company,” NLPC’s Corporate Integrity Project director Paul Chesser said in a press release.
Teen “de-transitioner” Chloe Cole is set to deliver the proposal to the shareholders.
“Ms. Cole will address the company’s board of directors, including beleaguered CEO Robert Iger, and tell her story about her difficulties in finding medical care and insurance coverage in her efforts to ‘de-transition,’ after trying earlier in her life to switch from the biological sex she was born with,” the press release continues.
See ya soon, @Disney!! 🙂 https://t.co/UOgHxsU5EU
— Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChoooCole) April 2, 2024
“Disney acts as if people like me don’t exist,” Cole said in a press statement.
“I intend to make sure the board and Mr. Iger hear that the company’s irrational gender ideology policies are actually destructive and that I am a victim of policies like it. De-transitioners like me are not going away. With the numbers of LGBTQIA+ workers at the company who have sought ill-advised sex changes, you can bet that litigation over deception, and discriminatory benefits policies, won’t be far behind,” Cole said.
The proposal being presented to shareholders “seeks for Disney’s Board to address how and why the Company fails to treat dysphoria and de-transitioning carefully and equitably for its employees across gender classifications.”
The NLPC filed a “white paper” with the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month detailing why Disney’s alleged discriminatory policies should be investigated.
For the 14th consecutive year, The Walt Disney Company has earned a perfect score of 100 on the 2020 Corporate Equality Index: https://t.co/l2SN2kLTcR pic.twitter.com/PJmY1doUMN
— The Walt Disney Company (@WaltDisneyCo) January 22, 2020
“Disney has been so proud about its 100-percent score on the Corporate Equality Index, designed by the pro-LGBTQIA+ Human Rights Campaign, which requires companies to cover sex change treatments in their health insurance offerings,” said Chesser.“Now we call upon Mr. Iger to lead the way for Corporate America to provide equal care for those who have suffered physical harm as a result, and who want bodily restoration. Besides the damage they have suffered, they are also discriminated against.”
Disney pushed back, with its Board of Directors encouraging shareholders to “vote against” NLPC’s proposal, and alleging the watchdog group is trying to “generate attention” with a “narrow focus…to advance a limited agenda.”
“The Company is deeply dedicated to promoting equity in its workforce,” Disney’s board said, adding that the NLPC’s proposal is “designed to serve the particular interests of the proponent.”
“Does Disney care more about the praise of transgender activists or the pain of its employees and their family, including children?” Chesser asked in an opinion piece published in the New York Post.
“We’re asking the company, which has famously associated itself with the gender-ideology movement, to stop ignoring the significant medical needs of those who’ve tried to reverse their sex transitions,” he continued. “We want the entertainment giant to explain why its health insurance doesn’t include coverage for people who attempt to detransition.”
“If Disney shareholders don’t give these suffering people their due April 3, it’s only a matter of time before a new presidential administration or courts force them,” he wrote. “Detransitioners are people too, and it’s time Disney and every other company acknowledged their pain instead of blindly seeking activist praise.”
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