Williams-Sonoma received a score of 85 on the 2023 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). By complying with HRC's controversial demands, Williams-Sonoma increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. The company covers transgender-related medical costs for its employees and their children. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. Williams-Sonoma 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. Williams-Sonoma corporately funds the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and supports the Equality Act. The company signed an amicus brief in opposition to the 2016 North Carolina bathroom bill HB2. For these reasons, Williams-Sonoma receives a High Risk rating.