Bumble has lost a third of its Texas workforce in the months since the state passed the controversial abortion SB 8 (Senate Bill 8), also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, over a year ago. This new data point was shared by Bumble’s Interim General Counsel, Elizabeth Monteleone, speaking on a panel this afternoon at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. The panel focused on the “healthcare crisis in Post-Roe America” and featured women who had both sued and spoken out about the need to have doctors, not politicians, involved in their healthcare decisions.

  • SeaJ
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    6310 months ago

    That’s kind of how I see it, especially with the culture war garbage. Being hostile to the LGBTQ community can take out a couple percent of people that almost certainly vote democratic.

    • DdCno1
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      710 months ago

      It’s not as certain as you might think. Ever heard of log cabin Republicans?

      • @ultranaut
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        4110 months ago

        Log Cabin Republicans are a joke. It’s like 3 guys who share the same humiliation kink and an obsessive hatred of taxes.

      • SeaJ
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        1510 months ago

        I have. And they are a small minority of the LGBTQ community that Republicans have been more than happy to get rid of without much of an hit to their numbers.