Insurance company State Farm canceled its partnership with a program that aims to raise awareness among children that “transgender and non-binary youth are just like all other kids” after coming under attack by an anti-LGBTQ campaign by right-wing political figures and media. We also reached out to State Farm asking when and why it chose to partner with GenderCool and why, specifically, it ended the partnership. GenderCool was founded in 2018 by Jennifer and John Grosshandler, who are parents of a transgender girl, and Gearah Goldstein. “These books were written by young teenagers about their own personal lives,” Jennifer Grosshandler told Snopes in a phone interview. The attack on GenderCool and State Farm for partnering with the group follows an old political tactic of smearing LGBTQ people as child predators.

Source: Washington Post May 27, 2022 02:54 UTC