Amazon 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, Amazon 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. Amazon 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. Amazon provides a benefits package for employees which covers travel/lodging costs for an abortion and transgender medical procedures for covered employees and dependents, including children. The company has removed conservative content from its store and from Amazon Web Services. It has banned books and censored Parler, an online free-speech platform. Amazon is a signatory of the Business Roundtable's 2019 Statement on the Purpose of Corporation, which promotes stakeholder capitalism and is committed to carbon neutrality by 2040. Amazon uses both its corporate reputation and its corporate funds for ideological purposes. The company denounced various states’ legislative efforts to protect election integrity and security. Amazon is a member of the MCCA, indicating its focus on recruiting, retaining, and promoting employees based on race. The company is a Ceres Network member and supports the Equality Act. Amazon donated to the CA LGBTQ Caucus and Equality California and has lobbied for ideological purposes. For these reasons, Amazon receives a High Risk rating.