Tyson Family Foundation Pledges Half-a-Million Dollars to Pro-LGBT Efforts in Northwest Arkansas

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The Tyson Family Foundation has pledged to give $500,000 as part of a multi-year commitment to support pro-LGBT efforts in Northwest Arkansas. Talk Business reports that with the pledge, the foundation is set “to be a presenting sponsor of NWA Pride Weekend through 2030.”

The Tyson Family Foundation is located in Fayetteville, and its primary purpose is to promote education, health, arts and culture, and youth programs, as well as scholarship opportunities for Tyson Foods employees and their families.

The foundation’s pro-LGBT support comes as other groups are wisely choosing to pivot away from these sorts of initiatives.

For a long time, major corporations and charitable foundations spent a tremendous amount of time and money pandering to pro-LGBT groups. But in recent years, corporate support for LGBT Pride has fizzled and Fortune 500 companies have abandoned the pro-LGBT Equality Index.

Major companies from Walmart to Target and John Deere to Lowe’s have rolled back pro-LGBT policies due to consumer backlash.

In 2023, Bud Light managed to single-handedly overthrow itself as the number-one beer in America after sending transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney a novelty can of Bud Light with Mulvaney’s picture on it. Mulvaney posted a video showcasing the Bud Light can — which led to backlash and boycotts from Bud Light drinkers nationwide. All told, that novelty can of Bud Light ended up costing the company more than $1 billion in lost sales, and the brand has never fully recovered.

The pushback from Americans has reached all the way to Hollywood as well. In recent years, we’ve seen entertainment giants like Disney and Pixar remove pro-LGBT elements from their storylines in response to moviegoers.

It’s obvious that consumers are tired of pro-LGBT pandering by corporations and other groups. It’s also deeply concerning when organizations use their wealth and influence to support ideologies that lead to troubling consequences. These sorts of efforts are out of step with everyday Americans, plain and simple.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

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Support for Sex-Change Procedures, Polygamy Falls Among Democrats: Gallup

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Last week pollsters at Gallup released a survey showing support for sex-change procedures and polygamy has fallen significantly among Democrats over the past year.

After the 2015 Obergefell ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, polygamist and transgender activists both began using the same arguments as same-sex marriage’s supporters, and for a long time it seemed like that strategy was reshaping public opinion in the U.S. However, new data from Gallup shows attitudes may be shifting — especially among Democrats.

Gallup’s annual “Moral Acceptability” survey measures Americans’ acceptance of various behaviors. The 2026 survey results show that among Democrats, support for changing a person’s gender is down 11 points and support for polygamy is down 10 points since last year.

Among Republicans, only 5% support sex-change procedures, and 7% say polygamy is morally acceptable.

Gallup has found for years that most Americans do not believe it is morally acceptable for a person to change genders, and recent survey data shows support for same-sex marriage and other LGBT issues is actually declining. These latest survey findings seem to be part of a larger shift in public opinion.

In recent years, corporate support for LGBT Pride has fizzled and Fortune 500 companies have abandoned the pro-LGBT Equality Index. Major companies from Walmart to Target and John Deere to Lowe’s have rolled back pro-LGBT and DEI policies in response to consumer backlash. And entertainment giants like Pixar and Disney have removed pro-LGBT elements from their storylines in response to moviegoers.

At the same time, we now know pro-LGBT activists and medical organizations spent years citing each other’s work in a circular pattern to manufacture a fake consensus about performing sex-change procedures on kids.

Whistleblowers have come forward testifying about how they were rushed through gender transitions as children without understanding the procedures’ risks, consequences, or alternatives, and public health experts and policymakers in the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, Finland, and other nations have found that science simply does not support these “gender transitions” for kids.

Gallup’s latest survey data may indicate that all of this is causing people to rethink their positions on same-sex marriage, sex-change procedures, and similar issues.

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Biological Male Wins Girls Shot Put Championship in West Virginia

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A biological male recently won first place in the girls shot put at a West Virginia state track and field championship — beating the second-place finisher by more than two feet.

This same athlete — who has taken first place in past years — is at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court case that will determine whether states can protect fairness in women’s sports. The Court is expected to rule in the case this month.

We have written repeatedly about how women’s athletics is at risk of being erased in America.

Letting men compete in women’s sports is unfair and reverses 50 years of advancements for women.

Female cyclists, swimmers, powerlifters, sprinters, volleyball players, and others have seen their sports radically changed by men who claim to be women.

In some cases, letting biological males compete against women and girls can even be dangerous.

Stories like this one are part of the reason Arkansas passed Act 461 by Sen. Missy Irvin (R — Mountain View) and Rep. Sonia Barker (R — Smackover) in 2021 to protects fairness in women’s sports in Arkansas. The law prevents male student athletes from competing against girls in women’s athletics at school.

Right now the U.S. Supreme Court is considering a federal lawsuit from West Virginia that could affect state laws like Arkansas’ Act 461.

Family Council joined dozens of state policy organizations and more than 200 state legislators in a legal brief in that case last September.

Most Americans believe that athletes should compete according to their biological sex — not their gender identity. We are optimistic the U.S. Supreme Court will agree and uphold fairness in women’s sports.

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