Southern Power Company 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, Southern Power Company 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. Southern Power Company 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. Southern Power Company does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees. However, it has not publicly terminated business relationships based on views or beliefs. Southern Power has funded Planned Parenthood and donated $200 million to racial equity and social justice causes. The company requires its employees complete unconscious bias training and its CEO is a signatory of the Business Roundtable's 2019 Statement on the Purpose of Corporation, which promotes stakeholder capitalism. However, it does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs and has not used its political contributions for ideological purposes. For these reasons, Southern Power receives a High Risk rating.