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How Disney supports our LGBTQ+ employees and Cast Members
Because our employees are at the heart of everything we do, Disney provides a comprehensive suite of benefits, services and resources to support the well-being of our diverse workforce and their loved ones so they can be their best, authentic selves every day at Disney.
Review the summary of inclusive benefits and resources that can help in:
- Supporting your health and well-being
- Caring for your family
- Celebrating diversity, equity and inclusion
Supporting your health and well-being
Benefits coverage
All of Disney’s medical options offer coverage to eligible employees’ and Cast Members’ spouses and domestic partners of all genders. Under these medical options, you and your enrolled spouse or partner have the opportunity to earn to help you be physically and financially well. Learn more about under your Disney benefits.
Disney medical options also provide transgender healthcare benefits, including gender reassignment procedures and related hormone replacement therapy and behavioral health services. The specific gender affirmation benefits vary by medical option—with Cigna and Allegiance-administered options offering the most coverage for additional services. Read Gender Affirmation Frequently Asked Questions for more information by medical option or available to you. You can also contact your medical option to learn more.
Well-being resources
Even if you’re not enrolled in Disney benefits, you and any dependents and household members have access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for 24/7 help. Find out how the can support your and your loved ones’ emotional well-being. Additional family and work-life resources, such as LifeCare, are available when and where you need it most.
Caring for your family
Families are an important part of our lives—and how we grow and care for them is unique. That’s why you have access to resources that support you and your loved ones in a variety of ways.
New additions
Disney offers eligible employees all-inclusive family-building benefits, up to a single lifetime maximum of $75,000. Benefits include fertility and egg- and sperm-freezing services, and adoption and surrogacy assistance.
*New program enhancement effective July 1! We are pleased to announce we are making the following changes to our family-building benefit effective July 1, 2021, to make it more inclusive for our LGBTQ+ community:
- A diagnosis of infertility will no longer be required in order to access fertility benefits
- Covered benefits will now include the cost of obtaining donor sperm and/or egg
Learn more about the available to you.
Parents who welcome new additions through the birth of a newborn, adoption or placement of a foster child can take up to eight weeks of paid Child Bonding Leave.
Family care resources
No matter what stage you’re at in caring for your family, there are Disney resources to support you. Get to know all your that support your well-being.
Celebrating diversity, equity and inclusion
Business and Employee Resource Group (BERG)
Learn how The Walt Disney Company’s LGBTQ+ BERG advocates, celebrates and educates on behalf of all LGBTQ+ and ally employees to help foster a culture of authenticity and inclusivity across the enterprise, marketplace and global community.
Pride Month
Every year, during the month of June, the Company recognizes and celebrates our LGBTQ+ community in a variety of ways. Learn more about the Company’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion by visiting Disney Belong.
U.S.-based employees. Information for employees outside the US will be updated as applicable/available. Eligibility may vary based on job status, medical coverage, work location and the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreement. In the event there is a discrepancy between this information and the governing documents, the governing documents will apply.