Synchrony 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, Synchrony 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. Synchrony 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 the Equality Act. Synchrony has thoroughly committed itself to the proliferation of DEI strategies in the private sector, as the company is a member of several coalitions including OneTen and the Fintech Equality Coalition. The company ties components of its employee's cash incentive compensation to ESG factors and provides gender affirming healthcare for its employees. The company's CEO signed the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion pledge and discriminates against some religious organizations in its charitable giving. Synchrony opposed various state and local legislation intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces. For these reasons, Synchrony Financial receives a High Risk rating.