EXCLUSIVE: Consumers’ Research Goes After Insurance Giant’s CEO For ‘Sacrificing Kids To Trans Ideology’

Consumers’ Research is unveiling a new advertisement campaign on Wednesday slamming Kirt Walker, the CEO of Nationwide, a mutual insurance company, and chair of the board of the Nationwide Children’s Hospital, claiming that Nationwide and Nationwide Children’s Hospital have been promoting “discriminatory practices” such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies as well as pushing gender ideology on kids.

Consumers’ Research’s campaign, titled “Not On Our Side,” includes a mobile billboard that alleges Walker “oversees a hospital that pushed trans ideology on kids,” and also claims he has been “sacrificing kids to trans ideology.” The group’s campaign also includes a separate mobile billboard claiming Nationwide and the Nationwide Children’s Hospital have pushed “discriminatory” DEI hiring practices and “supported child sex changes.”

“Under CEO Kirt Walker’s leadership, Nationwide pushed discriminatory DEI policies, tried to rebrand them with a superficial name change, and then threatened a nonprofit organization for catching them in the act and rightly calling them out,” Will Hild, executive director of Consumers’ Research, said in a statement provided to the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation. “Being woke and out of touch is a common theme for Kirt Walker as he also chairs Nationwide Children’s Hospital, which pushed radical gender ideology and irreversible sex-change treatments onto hundreds of kids. The woke, racist, and frankly vile behavior by Nationwide and Nationwide Children’s Hospital must stop.”

Nationwide Children’s Hospital has promoted various programs related to transgenderism, including the Team-driven Healthcare that Respects Individuals and Values Emotions (THRIVE) Program, which includes “behavioral health therapy, clinical medical social work and psychiatry who work with families of transgender and gender diverse youth and adolescents to help meet their treatment needs,” according