{"id":2613807,"date":"2026-06-13T19:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/these-568-companies-are-paying-to-trans-kids-a-nationwide-campaign-demands-they-stop\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T19:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:00:59","slug":"these-568-companies-are-paying-to-trans-kids-a-nationwide-campaign-demands-they-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/these-568-companies-are-paying-to-trans-kids-a-nationwide-campaign-demands-they-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"These 568 Companies Are Paying to Trans Kids: A Nationwide Campaign Demands They Stop"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fthese-568-companies-are-paying-to-trans-kids-a-nationwide-campaign-demands-they-stop%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=2613807&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--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s one thing we can all take pride in this June, it\u2019s that our pushback has been normalized. In these last three years, the march to pull companies back to neutral has outperformed everyone\u2019s expectations. But in this process of rolling back decades of corporate radicalism, one thing is clear: this isn\u2019t over.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how much success Americans have, not every CEO will go quietly. When it comes to transgender activism, some businesses are playing for keeps \u2014 and children are their number one targets.<\/p>\n<p>While an astonishing number of brand have walked away from the toxic Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and all of the extremism it represents, there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frc.org\/get.cfm?i=LK26F61&#038;f=LK26F61\">more than 550 companies<\/a> that not only support the surgical mutilation of children \u2014 they\u2019ll help pay for it. As part of <a href=\"https:\/\/reports.hrc.org\/corporate-equality-index-2026#findings\">the criteria<\/a> for the once-coveted 100% score in HRC\u2019s Corporate Equality Index, businesses must agree to offer health benefits that cover the cost of gender transition-related procedures for employees <em>and <\/em>their children, a stunning concession for anyone witnessing the <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/feature\/what-detransitioning-looks-like\">devastating heartbreak<\/a> this movement has wrought.<\/p>\n<p>Like most rational people, the 1792 Exchange is horrified that America\u2019s corporate culture is willing to bankroll experimental \u201ctreatments\u201d that have been disproven by science and lead to lifelong suffering, anguish, and regret. In a new campaign announced this week, they\u2019ve decided to take on these companies publicly, demanding that they stop financing the permanent scarring, sterilization, and castration of children in the name of \u201cgender-affirming care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frc.org\/get.cfm?i=LK26F44&#038;f=LK26F44\">a letter<\/a> obtained by The Washington Stand to all 568 businesses that scored highest under this section of HRC\u2019s index, 1792 Exchange Executive Chairman and CEO Douglas Napier confronts the army of executives who are either unaware of their internal policies or who have proudly signed onto plans that irreversibly harm innocent children. \u201cI am writing today to make you aware of information we have identified regarding your company\u2019s employee healthcare benefits,\u201d Napier explains. \u201cThis engagement is based on data from the Human Rights Campaign\u2019s (HRC) annual Corporate Equality Index (CEI), released in February 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although a lot of these offenders are brands or businesses that aren\u2019t household names, a surprising number of them are places most families wouldn\u2019t have thought twice about frequenting (until now), including: Abercrombie &#038; Fitch, Adidas, Amazon, American Eagle, Chipotle Mexican Grill, CVS, Del Monte Foods, Disney, Dollar Tree, DoorDash, Etsy, General Mills, Giant Eagle, IKEA, Kroger, Kohl\u2019s, Lands End, Lyft, Macy\u2019s, Mattel, Nike, Panera, Papa John\u2019s, Patagonia, Starbucks, Ulta Beauty, Victoria\u2019s Secret, and Wendy\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>As Napier underscores, \u201cYour company achieved full points under CEI Criteria 2 (Inclusive Benefits), which requires comprehensive health coverage for transgender individuals without exclusion for \u2018medically necessary care.\u2019 The HRC bases its scoring on information submitted to, or affirmed by, a company representative. Based on this score,\u201d he wrote, \u201cwe can reasonably infer that your corporate healthcare plans cover transgender-related procedures. And because most employer-sponsored healthcare plans extend coverage to dependents, this likely means the plan also covers minors. By publicly participating in the survey and highlighting these benefits, many companies are acknowledging the provision of transgender healthcare procedures and treatments to covered minor children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citing the surge in research like the blockbuster Cass Report, which sounded the alarm on the serious risks of these dangerous drugs and operations, Napier warns that \u201cthese procedures carry profound, often irreversible risks with limited proven benefit for children. This consensus,\u201d he notes, \u201cis further underscored by the rising number of detransition lawsuits\u201d \u2014 malpractice cases, he cautions, that may someday affect businesses \u201clike yours who sponsor these plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With this knowledge, Napier continues, \u201cYour company now has a clear opportunity to join leaders like Walmart, the largest company in the world, which has implemented a public-facing Summary Plan Description (SPD) with an explicit carve-out: \u2018Gender reassignment surgery is not considered medically necessary for individuals under the age of 18.\u2019 Walmart\u2019s straightforward policy demonstrates that if the world\u2019s largest employer can protect minor dependents this way, so can you.\u201d The 1792 CEO urges a \u201cclear, public carve-out in your healthcare plans\u201d \u2014 language they offer to provide \u2014 \u201cprohibiting coverage of gender transition drugs, surgeries, or related interventions for minor dependents. Doing so would align with best medical evidence, reduce potential legal and reputational exposure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cry of so many of these victims has been, \u201cI wish the adults had protected me,\u201d Napier laments. People like Chloe Cole, who grieves the double mastectomy she had at 15 \u2014 before she ever had her first kiss. \u201cThe surgeon confirmed with me that my breasts were perfectly healthy. How could they take away part of my womanhood before I was old enough to call myself one?\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/independentwomensforum\/videos\/the-essential-thesis-that-attempts-to-justify-a-child-transitioning-is-transitio\/2087061182023492\/\">mourns<\/a> now. \u201cThe peace and self-acceptance that I was promised never came. I\u2019m almost 22 years old now. I have no breasts because they were replaced with scars.\u201d And despite what doctors told her, she says now, \u201cI was not a sick boy trapped in a girl\u2019s body. I was a distressed girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But \u201cinstead of honoring my parents\u2019 instincts to keep me safe,\u201d Chloe remembers, \u201cthe doctors put me on a chemical castration drug to stop my puberty, followed by massive doses of testosterone to induce a fake male puberty.\u201d Now, she says emotionally, \u201cThe first thing I feel when I wake up every day is the pain in my hips and knees. I have days, weeks \u2014 months, even \u2014 when the post-traumatic stress gets to me. Some days I\u2019m not able to feel anything but numbness. Other days I\u2019m having flashbacks where I see my scars bleeding,\u201d Chloe admits, \u201cand I\u2019m having nightmares whether I\u2019m awake or asleep. For me, the worst part is that nobody knows whether I\u2019m able to have children now. I have no idea what my future is going to look like. No studies, surveys, or numbers are ever going to be able to quantify just how heartbroken I am. This is not medicine,\u201d she argues. \u201cMedicine heals what is sick. But me being female was not a disease. The lie was the disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These are the horror stories that hundreds of U.S. companies are stubbornly sponsoring \u2014 at a time when the entire world is backing away from the torture that gender ideology is inflicting on vulnerable kids. \u201cAn entire generation of children were lied to,\u201d Chloe emphasizes. \u201cThere is no such thing as a child being born in the wrong body. But there are physicians and medical bodies who prey on the confusion of perfectly healthy young boys and girls.\u201d And hundreds of businesses are enabling them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is unacceptable,\u201d Napier told TWS. \u201cCorporations should not be in the business of funding a mass medical experiment on children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Left can spin their extremism all they want, but this is child abuse. 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