United Airlines, canceled a business contract with the NRA over activist pressure. The company has also drawn controversy for its strict enforcement of a vaccine mandate, including punishing employees with a religious exemption with temporary unpaid leave. After laying off unvaccinated pilots due to Covid-19, United Airlines began a diversity initiative to recruit more diverse pilots. United Airlines 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 Human Rights Campaign’s controversial demands, United Airlines 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. United Airlines 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. America First Legal filed a letter with the EEOC requesting a civil rights investigation into United Airlines over discriminatory practices in hiring. United Airlines' CEO Scott Kirby says the company is committed to prioritizing diversity over merit in recruitment and hiring. The company supports the Equality Act, a controversial bill and transgender participation in women's and girls' sports. One of the company's outreach programs benefiting underprivileged youth raised funds through the sale of a Black Lives Matter lapel pin. The company opposed the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, which would prohibit teaching gender identity and sexual orientation to kids in K-3rd grade. United's CEO is a member of the Business Roundtable and Former CEO Oscar Munoz signed its 2019 Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation, which promotes stakeholder capitalism over traditional obligations to shareholders. The company posted a page on its website outlining its multiple LGBT partnerships and advocacy. United Airlines has incorporated drag queens into their business and sponsored drag queen shows. The company opposed various state and local legislation intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces. United Airlines opposed legislation in Iowa intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces. President, Brett Hart, denounced various states’ legislative efforts to protect election integrity and security. The company signed an amicus brief in opposition to the 2016 North Carolina bathroom bill HB2, which required people to use the bathroom of their biological sex. United Airlines CEO, Scott Kirby, 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 previously donated to Planned Parenthood. United Airlines is a gold sponsor of the HRC and a corporate partner of the NGLCC. The company has also pledged an undisclosed sum of corporate funding to the Black Lives Matter movement and related causes. United Airlines has partnered with LGBTQ groups the Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay Pilots Association, Equality Illinois, and the Trevor Project. For these reasons, United Airlines receives a High Risk rating.