Starbucks support for LGBTQIA2+ partners and communities
From offering inclusive health coverage, to partner-inspired community investments, to using our voice to advocate in support of civil rights and equality – Starbucks is proud to support and celebrate the LGBTQIA2+ community every day.
Key highlights and progress
Since the beginning, our partners (employees) have informed and inspired our allyship with the LGBTQIA2+ community.
Starbucks offers full health benefits to eligible full- and part-time employees, including coverage for same-sex domestic partnerships.
As one of the first employers to expand transgender health insurance options for full- and part-time partners, Starbucks added coverage of gender reassignment surgery.
Starbucks expanded its health coverage to include procedures previously considered cosmetic.
Starbucks begins offering expanded fertility benefits beyond adoption expenses.
Starbucks makes additional investments in family planning for all types of families by adding second parent adoption to the eligible reimbursement expenses and increasing the lifetime maximum with no per-attempt limitations.
Name and gender marker change support extended to partners, through the National Center for Transgender Equality, providing access to advisory services and reimbursement up to $500 for eligible costs associated with changes to state and U.S. federal identification.
As LGBTQIA2+ communities face continued discrimination, it remains our role and responsibility to ensure you can be who you are, without exception, and affirm our commitment to equality.
SARA KELLY, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF PARTNER OFFICER
Community partnerships
Starbucks has a long-standing commitment to diversity and inclusion for all. We have supported the Equality Act, the recent passage of the Respect for Marriage Act and opposed the patchwork of harmful policies and actions that have been proposed in several states around the U.S. We work with non-profit organizations around the country, including Human Rights Campaign, Advocates for Trans Equality and Out & Equal, to provide resources to partners and support allyship.
At Starbucks we care for our partners
We create experiences where everyone is welcome and respected. We are at our best when we create safe, inclusive environments for people to connect over coffee.
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