Human Rights Campaign

The Human Rights Campaign is the largest LGBTQ political lobbying organization in the United States. While the name sounds neutral, HRC operates as an activist group that works to reshape corporate America around progressive gender ideology. Its primary tool for influencing companies is the Corporate Equality Index.

The CEI is HRC’s annual scorecard that rates major U.S. companies on their alignment with HRC’s policy demands. Companies submit their internal policies for grading, and a perfect score signals full compliance with HRC’s agenda. In practice, the index functions less like a voluntary survey and more like a social credit system, rewarding companies that adopt HRC’s preferred positions and pressuring those that do not.

Because it pushes corporations to put ideological activism ahead of shareholders, customers, and employees, and because its requirements cause real harm. Most seriously, the CEI has pressured companies into covering gender transition drugs and surgeries for the minor dependents of employees. Corporations should not be funding experimental medical procedures on children through family health plans. We believe companies serve everyone best when they focus on business.

In the 2026 CEI survey, 568 companies affirmed that they provide health insurance coverage for gender transition drugs and surgeries for children. 1792 Exchange has publicly called on all 568 to institute clear carve-outs protecting minor dependents.

Three things: drop activist scorecards like the CEI, institute clear protections for minors in employee health plans, and adopt durable policies that keep the company neutral on ideological issues. Charles Schwab and Walmart have  already established explicit carve-outs prohibiting coverage of gender-transition interventions for minors, proving that if the world’s largest private employer can do it, any company can. 1792 Exchange offers to help companies craft these policies.

1792 Exchange maintains public databases, including our Corporate Bias Ratings and the Back to Business Tracker, which catalog corporate behavior and document which companies are withdrawing from ideological entanglements. Parents, shareholders, and consumers deserve transparency, and these tools let you see for yourself before you decide where to shop, work, or invest.