Human Rights Campaign Demotes Fox Corporation From Top Workplace List Following Fox News Coverage Of Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill, LGBTQ Issues
deadline.comThe Human Rights Campaign is sanctioning Fox Corporation from its list of top workplaces following Fox News’ coverage of Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill and LGBTQ+ issues.Aryn Fields, HRC’s senior press secretary, said that HRC has deducted 25 points from Fox Corp.’s score in its Corporate Equality Index.
Fox Corp. had been among the companies earning a “100 percent” rating as best places to work for LGBTQ+ quality.Fields said in a statement, “Fox News has a history of sharing misinformation and disinformation about the LGBTQ+ community.
We know from our own research, which we put out earlier this week, what their disinformation and misinformation means for the LGBTQ+ community: perpetuating stigma and marginalization of transgender and non-binary people.Fields added, “At a time when transgender people – especially transgender children – are under attack in statehouses across the country, rhetoric has real consequences.
We can no longer allow Fox Corporation to maintain it’s score if Fox News personalities and contributors continue to deny the existence of transgender people, minimize the violence transgender individuals face, refer to parents of LGBTQ+ youth as perverts, or equate leaders of LGBTQ+ diversity and inclusion efforts with sex offenders.
