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LINK State Farm, facing conservative uproar, drops support of LGBTQ children's-book program GenderCool - The Washington Post

State Farm’s jingle is unmistakable: “Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.” Yet when it came to State Farm’s support of a program providing LGBTQ-themed children’s books to teachers and libraries, conservative groups and right-leaning media outlets derided the insurance company as “a creepy neighbor” and accused it of “targeting” children with books about gender identity...

...Hours after a report about the partnership prompted an online uproar from conservatives, State Farm announced that it was dropping its support of the GenderCool Project, aimed at helping raise awareness around what it means to be transgender, inclusive and nonbinary.

snytiger6 9 May 25
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It's good that State Farm was trying to do the right thing, but caved in after pressure which is bad for them.

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