Dick's Sporting Goods (DSG) 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, DSG 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. DSG 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. DSG 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 stopped selling certain gun accessories and "assault-style" weapons in 2018. America First Legal filed a letter with the EEOC requesting a civil rights investigation into DSG over discriminatory practices in hiring. DSG does not provide protections against viewpoint discrimination. For these reasons, Dick's Sporting Goods receives a High Risk rating.