LL join amicus brief in support of transgender students' rights

Innula Zenovka · February 28, 2019

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Leading American businesses have long expressed a commitment to LGBTQ diversity and inclusion in their workforces as evidenced by inclusive policies, practices and benefits. Businesses realize being inclusive is not only the right thing to do -- it just makes good business sense as well. Companies that are inclusive of LGBTQ people and employees with LGBTQ family members are able to attract and retain the best and brightest across a wide spectrum of diversity, reap the benefits from increased engagement and productivity, and actively participate in the vibrant LGBTQ consumer marketplace.

Having built inclusive workplaces for their transgender employees and transgender dependents of employees, companies have a vested interest in the legal landscape in which those employees and their dependents live, work or go to school.

The 32 companies, represent roughly 1.36 million employees, a wide variety of industries, and $778 billion in revenue, signing the brief are:

Airbnb, Inc., Apple, Asana, Inc., CREDO Mobile, Inc., Deutsche Bank, eBay Inc., General Assembly Space, Inc., GitHub, Inc., Glassdoor. Inc., GlaxoSmithKline LLC, Google LLC, IBM, Indiegogo, Inc., Kaiser Permanente, Knotel, Levi Strauss & Co., Linden Research, Inc. (d/b/a Linden Lab), Lyft, Mapbox, Marin Software Incorporated, MassMutual Life Insurance Company, Microsoft Corporation, Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, NIO USA, Inc., Patreon, Postmates Inc., Replacements, Ltd., Shutterstock, Inc., Spotify, Tumblr, Inc., Xerox Corporation and Yelp Inc.

https://www.hrc.org/blog/hrc-files-amicus-brief-with-major-companies-supporting-trans-students