Dating app Grindr hires Tom Daschle’s firm to lobby on HIV prevention, IVF
WASHINGTON — LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr is tapping into the Washington lobbying world amid legislative battles over reproductive health care access.
The “Global Gayborhood” has hired The Daschle Group, founded by former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, to lobby on “HIV prevention; LGTBQ family formation challenges including surrogacy and IVF,” according to federal disclosures filed last week.
There are competing bills in the Senate designed to protect in vitro fertilization after an Alabama court ruling inadvertently barred IVF care. Democrats forced a vote on the Right to IVF Act in June, with only two Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) — voting for the legislation. Other Republicans argued the measure is a “scare tactic” and “fearmongering” from Democrats on a major issue heading into the election cycle, and have pushed their own version that would deny Medicaid funds to states that bar IVF.
