No Surprise: Behind the Scences -- and Sometimes In Front of the Cameras -- FoxNews Is All-In on Gender Ideology

The Daily Signal reports:

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL--Fox News employees are allowed to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity, rather than their biological sex, and permitted to dress in alignment with their preferred gender. They must also be addressed by their preferred name and pronouns in the workplace.

These are just a few of the policies outlined in the company handbook, dated January 2021, a copy of which was shared with The Daily Signal. Fox also offers to help employees come up with a "Workplace Transition Plan" to ease their gender transition at work.

The revelations comes amid conservative consternation at Fox Digital's use of activist language like "gender affirming care" in stories on its website, as well as the site's consistent use of female pronouns for biological males like TikTok celebrity Dylan Mulvaney and swimmer Lia Thomas (formerly known as Will Thomas).

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The Daily Signal talked to current and former Fox employees who requested anonymity to speak candidly about the company.

"They want you to think it's this place that supports traditionally conservative values," a former producer for "Tucker Carlson Tonight" told The Daily Signal. "But in reality, they're pushing this nonsense behind the scenes."

Carlson's show was canceled April 24, days after he delivered a viral speech at The Heritage Foundation's 50th anniversary gala. Fox News Media has not given a reason, simply stating that the two parties "agreed to part ways."

A source who still works at Fox News told The Daily Signal that after Carlson's show was canceled in April, producers for the new 8 p.m. "Fox News Tonight" program were told not to bash Mulvaney. That directive came from high-level executives, the source said.

Fox News did not respond to The Daily Signal's multiple requests for comment.

Under the category "Gender Transition," Fox's employee handbook promises that the company is dedicated to "expanding and strengthening" efforts to "sustain a more inclusive work environment." The Fox employee handbook is posted on Workday, where employees can see company guidelines or policies, a former employee told The Daily Signal.

"Employees who are transitioning their gender have the right to be open about their transition if they so choose, and to work in an environment free of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation, and without fear of consequences or transphobia for living openly," the policy says.

Citing the Human Rights Campaign, one of the most prominent LGBTQ organization in the country, the Fox handbook defines a slew of LGBTQ terms, including cisgender, gender expression, gender-fluid, gender identity, gender non-conforming, gender transition, LGBTQ, non-binary, and transgender.

For the past several years, Fox received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, "the nation's foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality." A former Fox News employee told The Daily Signal that the company frequently mentions this perfect score in employee training materials.

More at the link.

Note that some of this, such as allowing men in women's bathrooms, is dictated by New York law.

But this wasn't:

Fox News just laid off its entire investigatory unit, says Rolling Stone, owing to the Dominion settlement. Fox denies this, saying the unit was just "reorganized."

Meanwhile, the New York Times is worried about people feeling "vulnerable" in the bathrooms.

Vulnerable, due to the law Ron DeSantis just signed declaring that people will use the bathrooms corresponding to their real sex. Not their imaginary delusionary LARP "gender," but their real biological sex.

The New York Times isn't afraid for the vulnerability of the women who have to be in a small enclosed space with a man.

They're afraid for the men in women's bathrooms. Worried that the women will narc them out as "bathroom gender enforcers."

[B]athroom bills are back, part of a pitiless onslaught against trans bodies that gathers speed with each passing day. The new Florida bills target many aspects of trans people's lives, expanding the "Don't Say Gay" policies in school to older students, banning gender-affirming medical care for children and allowing the state to seize children from parents who allow them to receive such care. The laws also prohibit schools from recognizing a child's preferred name or pronouns.

The new bathroom law is particularly cruel and absurd. Politicians claim these measures seek to make bathrooms safer. But I have yet to see any of these legislators produce a shred of credible evidence that transgender people pose a safety threat to cisgender people in bathrooms.

I guess this opinion piece didn't go viral the way the New York Times was hoping, because soon after publishing it, they gave it a new improved clickbaity headline:

posted by Ace at 12:00 PM

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