SeatGeek Draws Backlash for Offering $25,000 Sex Changes as Employee Benefit
SeatGeek, a platform through which users can buy tickets, is facing backlash for a job posting that offers substantial perks such as $25,000 in “gender-affirming care.”
The analytics engineer position, as reported by Fox Business, pays as much as $175,000 per year.
But it also includes unlimited PTO, $500 per year for wellness expenses, subscriptions to a meditation and therapy app, and $120 per month for live events.
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The most head-turning benefit, however, is $25,000 for “family building, reproductive health services and Gender-affirming care.”
The account noted that SeatGeek “is offering job applicants up to $25K to cover ‘Gender Affirming Care’ aka genitaI mutiIation.”
“If you buy from this company, that’s what you’re supporting,” Libs of TikTok warned. “Remember that!”
Other social media users were indeed taken aback by the policy.
“This also proves they’re price gouging if they can afford to offer this,” one commenter said.
“plenty of other options to buy tickets, easy to avoid them,” another offered.
In recent years, many large companies have been paying for employees’ abortion travel and IVF treatments, as well as hormones and surgeries to enable a purported “gender transition.”
Beyond the $25,000 in so-called “gender-affirming care,” the prompts for the application process not only ask whether prospective employees are male or female, but whether they are “non-binary,” “third-gender,” “prefer not to say,” or “prefer to self-describe.”
The application page also says that “SeatGeek is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, creed, age, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, military or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.”
Such descriptions are relatively common for employers.
But another statement was included to reaffirm SeatGeek’s special appreciation for diversity.
“As an equal opportunities employer, we recognize that diversity is a positive attribute and we welcome the differences and benefits that a diverse culture brings. Come join us!” the company said.
