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A company handbook from Fox News, dated January 2021, was obtained by The Daily Signal.
According to the handbook, Fox News enforces a number of policies related to employee conduct and gender identity.
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For example, employees are forced to address others using their preferred names and pronouns in the workplace.
Employees are allowed to use bathrooms based on how they “identify,” rather than biological sex.
The handbook reportedly offers assistance to employees who want to “transition” genders, Daily Signal reported.
Employees can take advantage of a “Workplace Transition Plan” to ease their gender transition at work.
“These are just a few of the policies outlined in the company handbook,” Daily Signal reported.
Many Americans have noticed Fox News’ website and articles use activist language like “gender affirming care” in stories on its website.
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The media outlet only uses female pronouns for biological males.
Fox News has not responded to multiple requests for comment by The Daily Signal.
There are legal requirements in New York City, where Fox New is headquartered.
For example, the New York City Human Rights Law requires employers “to use the name, pronouns, and title with which a person identifies, regardless of the sex assigned at birth.”
The New York City law requires that people “be permitted to use gender facilities… that most closely align with their gender, regardless sex assigned at birth.”
In New York, it’s unlawful to deny bathroom access to trans-identifying males based on objections from biological women.
Fox also drew strong backlash for a June 2022 on-air segment praising a child’s gender transition as an “inspiration to others.” That segment briefly depicted California state Sen. Scott Weiner, a far-left Democrat who led the move to soften sex offender registry requirements for sodomy with minors, and highlighted the activist claim that a child might commit suicide if he or she is not permitted to transition.
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.
