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   From: democrat-criminals@mail.house.gov   
      
   https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/16/walt-disney-company-annual-shareholder-   
   meeting-vote-transgender-coverage-payment-political-donations/   
      
   The Walt Disney Company board wants to hide key financial data from the   
   public, particularly as it relates to their funding of the transgender   
   movement and donations to political candidates, documents reviewed by the   
   Daily Caller reveal.   
      
   The 2024 proxy vote ballot for Disney’s annual shareholder meeting,   
   scheduled for April 2, reveals the board doesn’t want the public, or even   
   their own shareholders, to know how much Disney spends on “gender   
   transition compensation and benefits” for its staff. Despite the board’s   
   suggested vote to shareholders, the National Legal and Policy Center   
   (NLPC) and National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) are urging   
   the company to release the data.   
      
   In Disney’s 2024 “Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders and Proxy   
   Statement,” Disney details how the NLPC and NCPPR notified the company   
   that they intend to present proposals focused on these issues. Within the   
   same document, Disney “affirms” that people who suffer from gender   
   dysphoria can “transition to a different sex.” However, “an increasing   
   body of scientific evidence shows no benefits result from such medical   
   treatments,” the NLPC argues. They go on to cite the European and American   
   medical community’s “increasing” caution about gender-transition   
   “therapies.”   
      
      
   “Victims report transition treatments and surgeries are harmful. Examples   
   include long-lasting or permanent outcomes like chronic pain, sexual   
   dysfunction, unwanted hair loss or hair gain, menstrual irregularities,   
   urinary problems, and other complications,” the statement continues.   
   “Rather than resolve health problems ‘gender affirming’ therapies instead   
   often exacerbate them. In such instances, those who desire to   
   ‘detransition’ cannot find medical care or insurance coverage, and are   
   permanently mutilated. Many of these sufferers litigate against those who   
   misled or harmed them.”   
      
   But as transitioners are de-transitioners are protected under “gender   
   identity” and “sexual orientation” aspects of the Equal Employment   
   Opportunity Commission (EEOC), they cannot be discriminated against in any   
   way, resulting in Disney covering transition procedures.   
      
   Shareholders have asked the board to issue a report on Disney’s funding of   
   gender care and related activities by Dec. 31, 2024, and whether there are   
   any “benefit gaps” related to gender dysphoria, as well as “associated   
   reputational, competitive, operational and litigative risks.”   
      
   Similarly, Disney doesn’t want shareholders to approve the publication of   
   the company’s charitable and political donations. The board recommends a   
   vote against “requesting a report on political expenditures” and   
   “publication of recipients of charitable contributions.”   
      
   In their recommendation, NCPPR argued that there are “issues” with   
   donating to certain groups who support sex-change surgeries, not just for   
   the potential legal and medical issues listed above, but because is it   
   “time Disney stop injecting itself into controversial and significant   
   social policy issues,” the proposal stated.   
      
      
   Disney’s board ignores all the arguments and scientific evidence laid out   
   by the NCPPR and NLPC in their explanation for why they’re recommending   
   voting “against” the proposals. “We believe the proposal is an attempt to   
   generate attention from a proponent with a narrow focus seeking to advance   
   a limited agenda rather than an authentic attempt to call for action in   
   the best interest of the Company and shareholders,” Disney wrote in   
   response to the proposals.   
      
   The board also ignored any mention of “gender” in their request for   
   shareholders to reject the proposal to publicize Disney’s charitable   
   donation, and instead stated the company is already transparent enough   
   about their spending. (RELATED: Disney CEO Pledges To Double Down On LGBT   
   ‘Storytelling’ In Animated Kids’ Movies)   
      
   “In its opposition statement Disney revealed why our proposal is so   
   important, and how badly it has failed to fulfill its fiduciary duties.   
   Disney clearly hasn’t spent a single moment considering how much Iger and   
   his team have harmed the company by going full-in on politics instead of   
   running the company for shareholder and even genuine stakeholder benefit.   
   Iger has hired people like Kathleen Kennedy who hate Disney’s customers   
   and want to shove their politics down audiences’ throats rather than   
   entertaining them,” NCPPR director Scott Shepard said in a statement to   
   the Daily Caller. “Iger seems to think that by adopting a partisan   
   position he makes it non-partisan and just ‘the right thing to do.’ He is   
   wrong in this, of course, as he’s wrong in just about every decision he’s   
   made for many years.”   
      
   Disney has found itself increasingly mired in political squabbles in   
   recent years, most notably with Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who   
   has gone after the megacorporation’s special tax status. Conservatives   
   have accused Disney of shoehorning progressive messaging into its content   
   and pursuing a political agenda over putting out quality family content.   
      
      
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