Corporate America Doesn't Believe Trans Rights Are Human Rights
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Corporate America is taking a strong stand for transgender rights. NBC News is comparing Lia Thomas to Jackie Robinson. Disney is not only harassing its conservative employees but proud of its progressive employees walking off the job to protest the “Don’t Say Gay” bill in Florida.
Apple, Inc. is proudly out for trans rights. Nike is too.
But through their actions, they have conveniently carved trans rights out of human rights. They will protest the former, not the latter.
Even their employees who care desperately about the ability of parents to give their pre-pubescent children hormone block drugs and teach kindergarteners about anal sex do not care about human rights.
How do I know?
Well, are the Disney employees walking off the job to protest the treatment of the Uyghurs?
Is Nike calling out China for its treatment of protestors in Hong Kong?
Is Apple willing to divest from China?
It really is the Disney employees that get me. In California and Florida, Disney employees are protesting the Parental Rights in Education law that very simply says to wait till fourth grade to start teach kids about sex and gender identity issues. Called the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, the law just merely articulates that kindergartners really do not have the capacity yet to truly understand some people think boys can become girls or that people have sexual relations — not just same sex, but heterosexual relations too.
That was enough to get Disney employees to walk out in protest and for ESPN employees to do on-air moments of silence.
But what about human rights?
The Chinese run concentration camps. They’ve engaged in the ethnic cleansing of minority populations. They have rounded up and slaughtered free speech activists. They send ministers and dissenters to re-education camps.
Disney does business in those areas. Apple profits from cheap labor. Nike does too. Their employees have that blood on their hands and they remain silent about their corporate parents profiteering off crimes against humanity. But a democratically elected legislature passing a law to keep progressive activists from teaching kindergarteners about anal sex?
That’s the bridge too far for them.
They don’t really care about human rights. They’ve made trans-rights something else they can protest so they don’t have to worry about how they get their paychecks.
ESPN employees will do on air moments of silence to protest a Florida law, but will make sure anyone who holds up a sign at a basketball game to protest China is never seen on camera as NBA employees drag those people out of the arenas.
But Lia Thomas is Jackie Robinson, y’all. NBC News says so.
The only thing objectionable about the Florida bill is that since it specifically carves out pre-k to third grade, it virtually mandates fourth-graders be subject to the propaganda they've avoided up to the third grade. Why do administrators believe this kind of information must be imparted to elementary-school children? What's the rush? Those are the questions parents should be asking.
This is what you get from situational ethics (i.e., the absence of absolute morality). Two quotes from the founders come to mind. John Adams: "Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." And James Madison: Our Constitution requires "sufficient virtue among men for self-government," otherwise "nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another." Once God was removed from the equation, the rest was a foregone conclusion.