More than 60 companies — including Apple, Google, Ikea, and EA — are calling on Texas Gov. Abbott to abandon an executive order that equates gender-affirming healthcare for transgender children with child abuse.
More than 60 companies, including some of the largest firms in tech and finance, are calling on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to abandonDriving the news:
"We call on public leaders — in Texas and across the country — to abandon efforts to write discrimination into law and policy." The order authorized the state to investigate parents who seek gender-affirming care for their trans children. Signatories to the new ad include Texas-based game studio Gearbox, which was one of more than 1,400 local business that opposed a controversial Texas law last year that effectively banned transgender student athletes.in April 2021 that the then-proposed law "bad for business," arguing that one of its impacts would be to discourage people from moving to and working in Texas.
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