The issue is that a lot of companies are being performative in that representation. They’ll make a commercial positively representing trans people, and then quietly destroy their DEI initiative and lay-off their trans employees. They’ll make a big show of supporting the LGBT community…until it cuts into their profit margins, and then they’ll gladly make a show of pandering to fascists. We can’t really reward these companies or call them allies when clearly the only thing they actually care about is money. To them, any representation they give is a happy accident on the path to shaking us down.
The issue is that a lot of companies are being performative in that representation. They’ll make a commercial positively representing trans people, and then quietly destroy their DEI initiative and lay-off their trans employees. They’ll make a big show of supporting the LGBT community…until it cuts into their profit margins, and then they’ll gladly make a show of pandering to fascists. We can’t really reward these companies or call them allies when clearly the only thing they actually care about is money. To them, any representation they give is a happy accident on the path to shaking us down.