Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
1. Natwest to pay for hormone replacement therapy
UK bank NatWest announced this week that in the future they would be paying for any of their employees who identify as transgender to receive hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
They join Goldman Sachs who, a couple of years ago, said they would pay for their employees to have gender reassignment surgery.
There is a tidal wave of “woke” gestures sweeping through the world’s biggest corporations.
After the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this year, Disney and Amazon and other mega-companies announced they would pay the travel expenses of any employee who needed to cross state lines to get an abortion.
NatWest has also started requiring their staff to wear “pronoun badges” to prevent “accidental misgendering”, and another British bank, Halifax, is doing the same, and invites anyone who disagrees with the policy to close their account.
Meanwhile, the economy is crashing and civil rights are being eroded. Wokism and identity politics makes for great camouflage. Continue reading “This Week in the New Normal”
