Popular Platform Draws Backlash for Offering $25,000 Sex Changes as Employee Benefit
A SeatGeek analytics engineer job listing drew attention for offering up to $25,000 to cover gender-affirming care,alongside a salary that can reach about $175,000 per year,unlimited PTO,a $500 annual wellness stipend,subscriptions to a meditation and therapy app,and a $120 monthly allowance for live events. The package sparked backlash and online discussion, with Libs of TikTok highlighting the gender-affirming care benefit and various commenters questioning or criticizing the policy. The posting also asks applicants about gender identity options and emphasizes diversity and equal employment opportunities, reflecting broader corporate trends of providing health benefits related to reproductive and gender-transition care. The article places SeatGeek’s policy in the context of other companies that have funded abortion travel, IVF treatments, hormones, and surgeries in recent years, though it notes the unusual prominence of the $25,000 gender-affirming care provision.
SeatGeek, a platform through which users can buy tickets, is facing backlash for a job posting that offers substantial perks such as $25,000 in “gender-affirming care.”
The analytics engineer position, as reported by Fox Business, pays as much as $175,000 per year.
But it also includes unlimited PTO, $500 per year for wellness expenses, subscriptions to a meditation and therapy app, and $120 per month for live events.
The most head-turning benefit, however, is $25,000 for “family building, reproductive health services and Gender-affirming care.”
Libs of TikTok drew attention to that element of the policy.
The account noted that SeatGeek “is offering job applicants up to $25K to cover ‘Gender Affirming Care’ aka genitaI mutiIation.”
“If you buy from this company, that’s what you’re supporting,” Libs of TikTok warned. “Remember that!”
Ticketing platform @SeatGeek is offering job applicants up to $25K to cover “Gender Affirming Care” aka genitaI mutiIation.
If you buy from this company, that’s what you’re supporting.
Remember that! pic.twitter.com/TsezPC9Izt
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 18, 2026
Other social media users were indeed taken aback by the policy.
“This also proves they’re price gouging if they can afford to offer this,” one commenter said.
“plenty of other options to buy tickets, easy to avoid them,” another offered.
“Wow! Thanks for letting me know. I’ve used them many times, but not anymore,” a third remarked.
In recent years, many large companies have been paying for employees’ abortion travel and IVF treatments, as well as hormones and surgeries to enable a purported “gender transition.”
Beyond the $25,000 in so-called “gender-affirming care,” the prompts for the application process not only ask whether prospective employees are male or female, but whether they are “non-binary,” “third-gender,” “prefer not to say,” or “prefer to self-describe.”
The application page also says that “SeatGeek is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, creed, age, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, military or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.”
Such descriptions are relatively common for employers.
But another statement was included to reaffirm SeatGeek’s special appreciation for diversity.
“As an equal opportunities employer, we recognize that diversity is a positive attribute and we welcome the differences and benefits that a diverse culture brings. Come join us!” the company said.
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