Fortune 500 companies have begun distancing themselves at an accelerating rate from the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI). We at 1792 Exchange applaud every business choosing free enterprise over activism, merit over discrimination, neutrality over ideology. Tractor Supply, Harley-Davidson, Lowe’s, Walmart, McDonald’s, and Target are among those moving back towards neutrality. This is welcome progress.

But the process is far from over.

For more than two decades, the CEI has increasingly rewarded companies for aggressively pushing divisive gender ideology. Them Before Us documented in their recent report, among other things, that the HRC has been wielding the index to pressure corporations into policies that permanently harm children — most notably the requirement that companies provide health insurance coverage for sex-denying drugs and surgeries for minor dependents.

Shockingly, 568 companies still affirmed in the 2026 CEI survey that they provide health insurance payments for “gender transition” drugs and surgeries for children.

This is unacceptable.

Corporations should not be funding mass medical experimentation on children through employer-provided family health plans — this is NOT healthcare. These interventions permanently and catastrophically devastate the minds, bodies, and futures of children.

Encouragingly, some executives have become exhausted by the relentless, ever-escalating demands of HRC and........

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