By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, Thrivent 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. Thrivent 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. A Thrivent donor program hosted an event to explore and learn about the past 50 years of LGBTQIA+ history in the life of the Lutheran church and the ELCA. For these reasons, Thrivent Financial receives a High Risk rating.