Grant Thornton 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, Grant Thornton 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. Grant Thornton 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. Grant Thornton is a signatory of the Net Zero Financial Service Providers Alliance, committed to carbon neutrality by 2050. The company has made unconscious bias training mandatory for all employees and continues to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion sessions into company-wide conferences and onboarding programs for new hires. Grant Thornton supports the Equality Act. The company’s CEO, Seth Siegel, signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace. Grant Thornton is donating $300,000 over three years to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The company is a brass sponsor of Out & Equal. Grant Thornton donated to the Equality PAC. For these reasons, Grant Thornton receives a High Risk rating.