Detransitioner Camille Kiefel: IBM, Think Different on Gender Transition Coverage

About this episode

Camille Kiefel discusses the implications of corporate policies on gender transition surgery at IBM's shareholder meeting.

At IBM's annual meeting of shareholders, the company faced a shareholder proposal from the Heritage Foundation via its Free Enterprise Initiative over its perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, one of the primary corporate activist rating systems for LGBTQ+ issues. Presenting at that meeting was Camille Kiefel, a detransitioner (someone who undergoes gender transition surgery and later regrets it). Kiefel talked to the company about the risks and ramifications of covering gender transition surgery in its healthcare, particularly for children as it appears that IBM does. This was a powerful example of the real human consequences of corporate policies that aid or adopt radical, activist social agendas - and why the corporate move away from such policies and back to sanity cannot come quickly enough. Learn more about The Heritage Foundation's Free Enterprise Initiative here: https://www.heritage.org/free-enterprise-initiative See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Guest: Camille Kiefel

Topics covered

• gender transition
• corporate policies
• LGBTQ+ issues
• healthcare
• detransition
• activism

Keywords

• detransition
• IBM
• Heritage Foundation
• gender transition surgery
• LGBTQ+
• corporate equality
• activism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: IBM, Heritage Foundation, Human Rights Campaign, Free Enterprise Initiative

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