Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, 50 more firms tell Trump to leave trans people alone

In a letter published online today, 56 of America's largest corporations tell Donald Trump not roll back legal protections for transgender people, as he is threatening to do with the midterm U.S. elections one week away. What he appears to be trying to do, of course, is far more than that. Donald Trump says he wants to be the one who determines your gender.

Companies spanning tech, financial services and consumer products that represent over $2.4 trillion in annual revenue and have almost 4.8 million employees signed the statement after a New York Times report said the Trump administration is considering limiting the definition of gender to birth anatomy.

Airbnb, Amazon.com, Apple, Ben & Jerrys Homemade, Cisco, Google, IBM, Intel, Lyft, Microsoft, Dow Chemical, Uber, and Warby Parker were among the co-signers.

The signing companies oppose "any administrative and legislative efforts to erase transgender protections through reinterpretation of existing laws and regulations."

"We call for respect and transparency in policy-making, and for equality under the law for transgender people," the letter reads.

Transgender people are our beloved family members and friends, and our valued team members. What harms transgender people harms our companies, the companies wrote.

Here is the full text of the letter, and the signatories:

We, the undersigned businesses, stand with the millions of people in America who identify as transgender, gender non-binary, or intersex, and call for all such people to be treated with the respect and dignity everyone deserves.

We oppose any administrative and legislative efforts to erase transgender protections through reinterpretation of existing laws and regulations.