AvalonBay Communities scored a 100 out of 100 on the 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, AvalonBay Communities increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. The company provides a benefits package for employees which covers transgender medical procedures for covered employees and dependents, including children. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. AvalonBay Communities 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 offers training programs that address unconscious bias and supports the Equality Act. AvalonBay Communities CEO, Ben Schiller, signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace. The company donates to Los Angeles LGBT Center JVS SoCal, an organization that provides "transgender" people with "Hormone therapy, including education and management" and "Pre- and post-surgical care". For these reasons, AvalonBay receives a High Risk rating.