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Comment of 1792 Exchange in Support of the Proposed Rule, “Rescinding the Equity Assistance Center Program Regulations
Dear Assistant Secretary Baesler: 1792 Exchange writes in support of the Department’s proposal to remove the Equity Assistance Center Program regulations, and we strongly urge the Department to complete this process. 1792 Exchange is a nonprofit corporate accountability organization. We document ideological capture across American companies and institutions and work to return them to neutrality by upholding free speech, free exercise, and free enterprise. That work gives us a clear view of this program, because we sit at the far end of the pipeline it feeds. The drift this rule corrects begins at the schoolhouse. We document where it ends. Congress created this program in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for one purpose: to help school districts desegregate. Congress even defined the word “desegregation” so no official could bend it. “Desegregation” means assigning students without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And in the same sentence, Congress said what desegregation is not: moving children around to hit racial targets. The rule runs in one direction only. Race is not to be used, not even for approved causes. The Supreme Court says the same thing in plain words: “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” That …
To Corporate America: Add a Carve-Out to Protect Kids
From 1792 Exchange To the 568 Companies Covering “Transgender” Procedures for Minors Many heartbreaking stories have been recently told by young men and women who have undergone so-called “transition” procedures as minors and who are now suffering from deep regret and permanent physical and emotional damage. From Capitol Hill to corporate annual meetings, these unfortunate victims have bravely revealed the irreversible harms inflicted upon them as children under the guise of “health care.” The common cry among them has been “I wish the adults had protected me.” I am writing today to make you aware of information we have identified regarding your company’s employee healthcare benefits. This engagement is based on data from the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) annual Corporate Equality Index (CEI), released in February 2026. Your company achieved full points under CEI Criteria 2 (Inclusive Benefits), which requires comprehensive health coverage for transgender individuals without exclusion for “medically necessary care.” The HRC bases its scoring on information submitted to, or affirmed by, a companyrepresentative. Based on this score, we can reasonably infer that your corporate healthcare plans cover transgender-related procedures. And because most employer-sponsored healthcare plans extend coverage to dependents, this likely means the plan also covers minors. …
To Benevity: Stop Using the SPLC’s Discredited “Hate List”
From organizations slanderously placed on the SPLC’s “Hate List.” To Soraya Alexander and the leadership of Benevity: We, the undersigned organizations, urge Benevity to immediately end its use of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) “Hate Map” and “Hate List” in determining which nonprofits are eligible for corporate charitable giving and employee matching programs. By relying on these partisan designations, Benevity legitimizes a severely biased blacklist that inspires violence, urges discrimination against mainstream organizations, and undermines the spirit of charitable giving. The SPLC’s list has already caused real harm. In 2012, a gunman entered the Family Research Council’s Washington, D.C. headquarters intending to commit mass murder. He later admitted that he chose his target after seeing it labeled on the SPLC’s website. By using the SPLC’s lists to vet charities, Benevity reinforces and perpetuates a dangerous mechanism that has already been used to justify violence against peaceful Americans. The situation surrounding Turning Point USA underscores this danger with tragic clarity. The organization was added to the SPLC’s Hate List in 2024 and targeted in a hostile SPLC article in May 2025. Just one day before the assassination of its founder, Charlie Kirk, the SPLC featured Turning Point USA in its …