PPG Industries 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, PPG Industries 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. PPG Industries 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 lobbied the Pennsylvania state legislature to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the state's list of protected classes. PPG pledged to pay over $20 million to "address systemic racism". For these reasons, PPG Industries receives a High Risk rating.