Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance 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, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance (Northwestern Mutual), 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. Northwestern Mutual 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. Northwestern Mutual supports the LGBTQ movement and funds multiple LGBTQ organizations. For these reasons, Northwestern Mutual receives a High Risk rating.