A large number of Fortune 500 companies are no longer publicly sharing their DEI/LGBT policies, according to a new report.
Every year, the so-called Human Rights Campaign (HRC) demands that Fortune 500 companies publicly share their DEI/LGBT policies by participating in the HRCÂ Corporate Equality Index (CEI).”
But this year, only 131 Fortune 500 companies complied, down from the 377 that complied in 2025, as reported by Fox News.
Huge news. 65% of Fortune 500 companies have stopped participating with the woke @HRC CEI social credit scoring system as a result of my campaign to end DEI in corporate America.
A Total, resounding victory by our movement.
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— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) February 5, 2026
According to the HRC, this doesn’t really mean anything, as the companies that chose not to participate still have DEI/LGBT policies on their books.
“While fewer companies elected to participate publicly, the data do not indicate a rollback of workplace inclusion,” HRC said in an executive summary. “Instead, the decline in submissions reflects a shift in how employers are approaching transparency in the current environment.”
HRC appears to believe that companies are quietly maintaining DEI/LGBT policies but publicly hiding them because of the Trump administration.
“We are living in a moment of extraordinary uncertainty,” HRC president Kelley Robinson said in a statement. “Political volatility, economic pressure, and social division are reshaping the environment companies and workers alike must navigate.”
Dustin DeVito, the head of research at the conservative watchdog group known as the 1792 Exchange, also admitted that DEI/LGBT policies have mostly stayed the same despite the reduced transparency.
DeVito noted to Fox News that a whopping 72 percent of Fortune 500 companies are offering so-called transgender-inclusive healthcare benefits like sex-change operations.
The Family Council believes the drop in transparency is a result of the Budweiser fiasco when Anheuser-Busch recruited transgender loon Dylan Mulvaney to represent their Bud Light products.
“Seeing a brand like Bud Light singlehandedly overthrow itself as America’s bestselling beer caught the corporate world’s attention,” the Council wrote in a recent report.
“Since then, many major corporations have reduced their LGBT themed marketing, rolled back pro-LGBT policies, and stopped participating in HRC’s Corporate Equality Index,” the report continued.
Note also that Anheuser-Busch’s alleged “failure” to defend Mulvaney from attacks cost the corporation its perfect CEI score:
The Corporate Equality Index is set to SUSPEND Anheuseur-Busch’s perfect 100 score on the woke scoring system created by the worlds largest LGBT lobby group, Human Rights Campaign.
The suspension is due to the fact the brand failed to defend Dylan Mulvaney in the wake of the… pic.twitter.com/UDnYh585qM
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 19, 2023
“To get a perfect score on the index, companies must agree to demands like covering the cost of gender-transition procedures for employees and their families, forcing workers to undergo ideological training, opening restrooms to both sexes, and so forth,” according to the Family Council.
Despite companies still pursuing “woke” policies, just the fact that they’re not participating in the CEI has the LGBT community in an uproar.
“For workers at companies that did make a show of rolling back DEI, the mere perception of a diminishing commitment to equality can have devastating impacts,” LGBTQ Nation lamented, citing data from HRC.
“More than half of workers (54.2%) at organizations that publicly scaled back diversity and inclusion efforts reported experiencing stigma or bias in the past year, more than double the rate (24.9%) of workers at organizations that publicly maintained inclusion practices,” their report continued.
Meanwhile, Consumers’ Research Director Will Hild, a conservative, celebrated HRC’s latest findings.
“The number of Fortune 500 companies abandoning participation in HRC’s radical activist index is yet another sign that ESG and woke capitalism were never about profits,” he told The Washington Stand.
“The more consumers learn about companies’ advocacy for bizarre, fringe LGBTQ politics, the less they think of the brands. And corporations are finally getting the message. Hopefully, the companies still participating will soon concede that their job isn’t to tell Americans how to live or what to believe, but to simply serve their needs,” he added.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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