UPS scored an 85 on the 2023 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. By complying with Human Rights Campaign’s controversial demands, United Parcel Service (UPS) increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. The company covers transgender-related medical costs for its employees and their children. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. UPS 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. UPS does not provide its employees with protections against viewpoint discrimination, but has not publicly terminated business relationships based on views or beliefs. UPS once fired an employee due to their hair length and eventually settled the lawsuit for alleged religious discrimination and has since amended this policy. The company is a Platinum Corporate Sponsor of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and the UPS Foundation gave $250,000 to the HRC. UPS pledged over $10 million to BLM and related causes, supports the Equality Act, and is a corporate partner of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce. The company is a signatory of the Business Roundtable's 2019 Statement on the Purpose of Corporation, which promotes stakeholder capitalism. UPS is a gold partner of PFLAG. For these reasons, UPS receives a High Risk rating.