By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, Wendy's 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. Wendy's 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. Wendy's pledged support to BLM and related causes and has partnered with GLAAD. Wendy's requires that organizations abide by its nondiscrimination policy for charitable giving. For these reasons, Wendy's receives a High Risk rating.