Microsoft, EA, Gearbox Sign Letter Opposing Texas Anti-Trans Bill
Various gaming companies, including Electronic Arts, Microsoft, and Gearbox, have signed an open letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott opposing a recent anti-trans bill. This letter is in response to an order Abbott passed in February of this year calling for the parents of trans children to be investigated for child abuse. This follows the recent news of Microsoft purchasing Activision Blizzard - a company with its own history of alleged discrimination.
As reported by IGN, an LGBT+ organization called the Human Rights Campaign brought together sixty-five major companies with an open letter pleading with Abbott to "abandon efforts to write discrimination into law and policy." The letter, which ran in the Dallas Morning News as a full-page ad, was initially shared on Twitter by the Texas Director of HRC <a href=«https://twitter.com/_RebeccaMarques/status/1502273206505422849?ref_src=» https: screenrant.com target="_blank" rel=«noopener noreferrer»>Rebecca Marques
. Marques wrote in a tweet that the letter was designed to keep Texas policymakers from discriminating against "our employees, their families and our customers." The list of companies supporting this letter includes gaming organizations EA, Microsoft, and Gearbox.
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Anti-LGBT sentiment within the gaming world can be all too common, with EA itself recently encountering it when trying to release The Sims 4'sMy Wedding Stories DLC in Russia, where it originally planned to not launch the pack due to potential censorship laws. Time will tell if Greg Abbott and the larger body of Texas conservatives will listen to this letter, but a public disavowing of trans discrimination by huge companies like Electronic Arts a
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