Southern Power Company 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, Southern Power Company 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. 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. The company highlights its unconscious and inclusive bias training required for all employees. Southern Company’s CEO is a member of the Business Roundtable and signed its 2019 Statement on the Purpose of Corporation, which promotes stakeholder capitalism over traditional obligations to shareholders and customers. The company commits to being an "anti-racist" company. Southern company’s former CEO, Tom Fanning, signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace. The company has donated to Planned Parenthood and donated $200 million to racial equity and social justice causes, including $50 million to a net zero carbon future. Souther Company has lobbied for ideological purposes. For these reasons, Southern Company receives a High Risk rating.