Colgate-Palmolive 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, Colgate-Palmolive 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. Colgate-Palmolive 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. Colgate-Palmolive is part of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media and is a corporate partner of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC). The company provides unconscious bias training for its employees and signed onto a 2015 amicus brief supporting Obergefell v. Hodges, legalizing same-sex marriage. For these reasons, Colgate-Palmolive receives a High Risk rating.