Cushman & Wakefield cut ties with former president Donald Trump's real estate company after January 6, 2021. Cushman & Wakefield 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, Cushman & Wakefield 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. Cushman & Wakefield 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 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. Cushman & Wakefield is a corporate partner of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce. The company signed the Orlando Economic Partnership's DEI pledge, endorsing DEI as a strategic imperative in its business practices. For these reasons, Cushman & Wakefield receives a High Risk rating.