Hartford has ended all business with companies who get more than 25% of their energy from coal and is phasing out business with companies in the coal sector. Hartford scored a 100 on the 2023 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, Hartford Financial Services (Hartford), increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. The company covers transgender-related medical costs for its employees and their children and provides specific sexual orientation and gender identity-based benefits. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. Hartford forces employees to undergo multiple ideological trainings and uses its reputation, corporate funds, and political influence to support controversial sex and gender ideologies, organizations, and legislation. The company supports LGBTQ Pride and opposed anti-LGBTQ legislation. The Hartford is a corporate partner of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) and has donated to the Equality PAC. The company opposed various state and local legislation intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces. For these reasons, Hartford Financial Services receives a High Risk rating.