In the weeks after North Carolina’s Republican-led state legislature passed its infamous 2016 “bathroom bill” — banning transgender people from using the bathroom aligned with their gender — major companies and their CEOs tripped over themselves to denounce it.

PayPal canceled its planned expansion into North Carolina. The NCAA pulled its seven tournaments from the state. And 68 companies , including Apple, Yelp, American Airlines, and Nike, signed an amicus brief with the Obama-era Department of Justice denouncing the law.

Late last month, the Texas Legislature passed its own, inarguably harsher, version of the “bathroom bill.” But in the first year of a second Trump administration hellbent on targeting the trans community , those corporate crusaders have been notably qui

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