PayPal’s Commitment Towards The LGBTQ+ CommunityPayPal’s Commitment Towards The LGBTQ+ Community

by Team Iamsafeatwork

06-07-2023

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Our approach to assisting the LGBTQ+ community is inextricably linked to our company’s mission, vision, and values of promoting employee well-being and enabling the financial health of all individuals, particularly historically underserved communities.

The corporation has reacted to a number of state and local lawsuits over LGBTQ+ rights. An amicus brief is a legal tool that we use to effect change. This is a mechanism for businesses and others who want to express themselves in court to do so formally. We recently signed an amicus brief in the matter of Emilee Carpenter, LLC v. James to defend New York’s State Human Rights Law and Civil Rights Law, both of which prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. We also signed an open letter published in the Dallas Morning News by the Human Rights Campaign criticising Texas politicians’ efforts to criminalise parents of transgender youngsters seeking gender-affirming care.

PayPal is also a supporter and member of a number of LGBTQ+ advocacy and talent development organisations. For example, we are a member of the Human Rights Campaign corporate coalition to campaign for non-discriminatory legislation and a partner of Out in Tech to provide resources and skills to members of the LGBTQ+ community. In honour of Pride Month, we are donating $125,000 to Out in Tech to help expand opportunities for LGBTQ+ people. We’ve also recently contributed to LGBT Ireland’s refugee training programme and to Equality Texas to assist improve the rights of LGBTQ+ Texans.

PayPal’s Pride Employee Resources Group is also a huge driving force behind many of the company’s important initiatives, such as expanding employee self-ID options to include non-binary gender status, updating PayPal’s board of directors’ governance guidelines to include sexual orientation, and adding pronouns to company systems. This year, the community celebrated International Transgender Day by hosting Jeopardy! Champion Amy Schneider in a discussion with employees about being a transgender woman in computing.

This group recognises and promotes our commitment to diversity and inclusion, as well as our support for LGBTQ employees and allies. Pride: Promotes the well-being of LGBTQ employees and allies across our markets; raises awareness, and encourages sensitivity to, the challenges that the LGBTQ community faces; and ensures that our products are inclusive and assists in directing PayPal’s outreach around human rights and health care.

LGBTQ National Task Force

The National LGBTQ Task Force’s purpose is to strengthen the grassroots power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. We accomplish this through training activists, providing state and local organisations with the skills needed to organise broad-based campaigns to defeat anti-LGBT referendums and advance pro-LGBT legislation, and strengthening our movement’s organisational capacity.