{"id":1367188,"date":"2022-03-09T14:16:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T19:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1367188"},"modified":"2022-03-09T14:16:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T19:16:11","slug":"fortune-500-company-hosts-trans-activist-for-international-womens-day-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fortune-500-company-hosts-trans-activist-for-international-womens-day-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortune 500 Company Hosts Trans Activist for \u2018International Women\u2019s Day\u2019 Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffortune-500-company-hosts-trans-activist-for-international-womens-day-talk%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1367188&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Paula Stone Williams attacked Christians for anti-trans &#8216;bigotry&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tPaula Stone Williams \/ Facebook\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/patrick-hauf\/\" title=\"Posts by Patrick Hauf\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Patrick Hauf<\/a> \u2022 March 9, 2022 2:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A Fortune 500 roofing company celebrated International Women&#8217;s Day by hosting a talk from a transgender activist who attacked Christians over their &#8220;bigotry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Owens Corning, headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, held a company-wide meeting on Tuesday that included a talk from Paula Stone Williams\u2014an influential evangelical pastor turned transgender activist. An individual familiar who viewed her remarks to the construction company told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> that Williams said American Christians are the root of anti-trans bigotry. The International Women&#8217;s Day conversation also featured discussion of the lack of attention paid to nonbinary people in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Williams served for two decades as the president of the Orchard Group, a Christian organization that builds churches around the country. Williams was pushed out of the organization after &#8220;coming out&#8221; at age 60 as a woman and went on to build a following as a transgender\u00a0 activist through TED talk appearances and by serving as pastor of a nondenominational church. Williams published a book last year that details the transition, <i>As a Woman: What I Learned About Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy After I Transitioned<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Williams also works as a pastoral counselor and told Owens Corning employees that clients say Williams has become &#8220;a better therapist as a woman than you were as a man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After the talk, Owens Corning posted about Williams&#8217;s speech on Facebook, saying it left employees &#8220;feeling energized about their futures as professional women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1573200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P0PwuO34.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"767\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P0PwuO34.jpg 767w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P0PwuO34-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P0PwuO34-655x1024.jpg 655w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P0PwuO34-736x1151.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P0PwuO34-314x491.jpg 314w\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Neither Owens Corning nor Williams responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Debates over womanhood and transgenderism have received extensive national coverage in recent months. Lia Thomas set Ivy League swimming records after switching from the men&#8217;s team to the women&#8217;s team\u2014a story that went viral in both political and sports media. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tracktranslegislation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.tracktranslegislation.com\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1646929937459000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2-CcjBg_01uJ7EZfeg-Nsx\">Dozens<\/a> of states have proposed bills this year on trans issues such as women&#8217;s sports, bathroom access, and hormone therapy for minors.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Corporations have <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2015\/07\/13\/transgender-fortune-500\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">used<\/a> LGBT issues in recent years to push products such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.converse.com\/c\/pride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.converse.com\/c\/pride%255C&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1646929937459000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2rnLfhnEAaOvhRVn4FE7rF\">shoes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/irl\/budweiser-uk-pride-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/irl\/budweiser-uk-pride-campaign\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1646929937459000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1mGxr3pEOvx_pyi1Wh23z-\">beer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">International Women&#8217;s Day, which is celebrated on March 8, began in the Soviet Union after women gained suffrage in the country. It grew popular with socialist groups around the world and was later recognized by the United Nations in 1977.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News Paula Stone Williams attacked Christians for anti-trans &#8216;bigotry&#8217;  Paula Stone Williams \/ Facebook  Patrick Hauf \u2022 March 9, 2022 2:00 pm A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}