The Corporate Equality Index For Men
The Corporate Equality Index For Men
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBT rights organization, advocates policies that many would argue are an affront to the human rights of women.
A couple of years ago, a man told me the “woman of the year” in the engineering department of his employer, a defense industry corporation, was a trans woman.
It occurred to me that some person who was born a woman had clawed her way through a college engineering program to enter a predominately male profession, where she may have to fight every day for respect and dignity. She lost out to a guy who put on a dress and says he identifies as a woman.
I did not know then that the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) was organizing a revolution behind the scenes. It created the Corporate Equality Index (CEI) that weighs a company’s corporate policies, practices and benefits for LGBT employees. Companies with a low score are condemned as pariahs to the greater LGBT community.
The HRC recently issued a travel advisory encouraging LBGTQ members to avoid relocation and travel to Florida because Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill barring gender affirming care for minors. (A Washington Post -KFF poll found that 68% of Americans oppose access to puberty-blocking medication for transgender children.)
Remember When Sex Discrimination Was A Thing?
For years, the HRC has been pressuring corporations to adopt policies that effectively discriminate against women. For example, when a man gets named woman of the year, a woman loses that distinction and whatever money and prestige go along with it.
In the past, people were willing to live and let live but the campaigns of the HRC and its allies are now infiltrating every nook and cranny of American society.
Polls repeatedly show the vast majority of Americans believe gender is determined at birth and a man cannot become a woman.
Women, in particular, don’t want males in their private spaces, including restrooms and locker rooms, because this raises the risk of male violence to women and girls. Women have good reason to fear that male pedophiles, perverts and rapists will follow trans through the open bathroom door.
Most Americans know it is unfair and unsafe for men to be allowed to play on female sports teams. This is so obvious that it’s tiresome to argue.
Finally, females don’t want to be known as “cis-women” or “breast feeders” or “menstruators” so as to differentiate themselves from trans. This is an affront to women’s dignity and an assault on their identity. Women are not a subspecies of homo sapien but one of two sexes.
Meanwhile, the HRC requires a company to “explicitly include ‘gender identity’ as part of their nondiscrimination policy.” The company’s web sites states 379 Fortune 500 companies “actively participated in the 2022 CEI” and 662 “major businesses have adopted gender transition guidelines to establish best practices in transgender inclusion for managers and teams.”
The Bud Light Debacle
In 2022, the Human Rights Campaign gave Anheuser-Busch its highest score - 100 - on its Corporate Equality Index (CEI).
Then Busch hired trans Dylan Mulvaney to be the face of Bud Light Beer and sales plummeted by more than 25%. Busch is trying to move on from that debacle but it now faces the wrath of the HRC.
A week ago, the HRC suspended Anheuser- Busch’s perfect CEI score on the grounds Busch was not supportive enough of Mulvaney. Busch has 90 days to rethink this transgression.
Like Sisyphus, the HRC wants Busch and all American companies to keep lugging the rock up the mountain. When it falls back down the hill, as it did for Busch, the HRC demands the company carry it back up.
So, without a single vote taken, American women, who are actually the majority in the U.S., have effectively lost their sex-based rights to men. Now that’s a feat!