Lyft

Lyft received a score of 100 on the 2026 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. The company recruits employees based on sexual identity issues. The company discriminates against vendors that do not promote divisive sex and gender policies, indicating it prioritizes sexual issues over merit (1)(2)(3). The company received a score of 100 on the 2025 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. The company recruits employees based on sexual identity issues. The company discriminates against vendors that do not promote divisive sex and gender policies, indicating it prioritizes sexual issues over merit (4)(5). However, Lyft has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (6).

Lyft’s HRC 2026 CEI rating indicates the company will not donate to non-religious charities unless they embrace controversial sexual identity policies (1)(2)(3). The company’s HRC 2025 CEI rating indicates the company will not donate to non-religious charities unless they embrace controversial sexual identity policies (4)(5). Lyft does not discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs (6)(7).

Lyft’s HRC 2026 CEI rating indicates the company forces employees to attend at least one, controversial training on gender identity, sexual orientation, transgender issues, and divisive racial ideology. The company provides gender transition guidelines for its employees and a specific benefits guide with a comprehensive explanation of transgender services funded by the company (1)(2)(3). The company’s HRC 2025 CEI rating indicates the company forces employees to attend multiple, controversial trainings on gender identity, sexual orientation, transgender issues, and divisive racial ideology. The company provides gender transition guidelines for its employees and a specific benefits guide with a comprehensive explanation of transgender services funded by the company (4)(5). In July 2022 America First Legal filed a letter with the EEOC requesting a civil rights investigation into Lyft over discriminatory practices in hiring (6)(7). The company does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (8).

Lyft’s HRC 2026 CEI rating indicates the company potentially agrees to allow a controversial stakeholder group focused on sexual identity issues to dictate marketing or advertising strategy. By doing so, the company risks dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders (1)(2)(3). The company’s HRC 2025 CEI rating indicates the company agrees to allow a controversial stakeholder group focused on sexual identity issues to dictate marketing or advertising strategy. By doing so, the company risks dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders (4)(5). Lyft led a group of companies openly opposing the Texas bill restricting abortions after a heartbeat is detected (6). It signed an open letter endorsing the Equality Act, a contentious proposal to amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act by adding sexual orientation and so-called gender identity as protected categories. The legislation would, among other implications, grant biological men access to women-only spaces such as sports teams and public restrooms, and compel healthcare providers to deliver sex-denying healthcare (7). Lyft opposed various state and local legislation intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces (8). The company opposed legislation in Iowa intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces (9). Lyft published an article on LGBTQ inclusivity and an expansive list of gender terms (10). The company partnered with the SPLC in an attempt to “protect drivers from white supremacists” and opposed the Georgia voting integrity bill (11)(12). Lyft opposed the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, which would prohibit teaching gender identity and sexual orientation to kids in K-3rd grade (13). The company’s CEO Logan Green and President John Zimmer are signatories to CEOs For Gun Safety (14). Lyft is a member of the “Don’t Ban Equality” business coalition, which advocates against any abortion restrictions because they are “bad for business” (15). The company’s Co-Founders; CEO & President, Logan Green & John Zimmer, denounced various states’ legislative efforts to protect election integrity and security (16). Lyft’s General Counsel, Kristin Sverchek, co-signed a letter to law firms demanding an improvement in diversity in order to retain business with the company (17).

Lyft provides a benefits package for employees that covers travel/lodging costs for an abortion and transgender medical procedures for covered employees and dependents, including children (1)(2)(3). The company’s HRC 2026 CEI rating indicates the company covers transgender related costs for its employees and their children, including paid short-term leave, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, chest surgeries, genital surgeries, medical visits, lab monitoring, and mental health benefits. The company also covers at least five of the following services: reconstructive hair removal, cosmetic hair removal, tracheal shave or reduction, facial surgeries, voice modification surgery, voice modification therapy, lipoplasty or filling for body masculinization or feminization, and travel and lodging expenses. Additionally, the company has potentially pledged philanthropic support of at least one organization or event that promotes sex and gender ideology. By allowing a political stakeholder group to dictate operations, the company increases health care costs and risks dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders (4)(5)(6)(7). Lyft’s HRC 2025 CEI rating indicates the company covers transgender related costs for its employees and their children, including paid short-term leave, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, chest surgeries, genital surgeries, medical visits and lab monitoring, travel and lodging. Additionally, the company has pledged philanthropic support of at least one organization or event that promotes sex and gender ideology. By allowing a political stakeholder group to dictate operations, the company increases health care costs and risks dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders (8)(9). America First Legal opened a civil rights investigation against the company for violating the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 by covering abortion costs but not maternity leave for mothers who choose life (10)(11)(12)(13). The company is a Platinum Sponsor of the HRC and is a partner of the HRC’s Foundation (14)(15)(16). The company has donated to Planned Parenthood and raised $2 million to support the ACLU (17)(18)(19). It pledged $500,000 to the Black Lives Matter movement and related causes (20)(21). Since 2017, the company has encouraged its riders to round up their fare to the nearest dollar to donate to select few organizations, including the Human Rights Campaign. This initiative has raised more than $4.5M to support HRC’s programming. The company has also recently partnered with the HRC to provide free transportation to transgender people to “tackle the systemic racial barriers to care and prioritize trans communities of color” (22)(23)(24). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of the company using corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (25).

Lyft’s HRC 2025 CEI rating indicates the company publicly advocated for controversial sex and gender ideology through local, state or federal legislation or initiatives. By allowing a political stakeholder group to dictate operations, the company risks dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders (1)(2). The company donated to the Equality PAC but has not lobbied for ideological purposes (3)(4)(5).