By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, John Hancock Financial increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. The company covers transgender-related medical costs for its employees. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. John Hancock 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 is a corporate partner of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce. John Hancock opposed various state and local legislation intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces. For these reasons, John Hancock Financial receives a High Risk rating.