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‘JUNK REPORT’: Human Rights Campaign Fires Back at HHS Transgender Political-Violence Study

The Human Rights Campaign, America’s largest LGBTQ activist group, condemned as “junk” a report finding a correlation between support for transgender medical procedures and left-wing authoritarianism, along with justifications for political violence.

The Department of Health and Human Services commissioned the study, in which researchers with Rutgers University, the Manhattan Institute, and the Network Contagion Research Institute surveyed 1,208 U.S. adults. They asked a series of questions measuring support for a “clinical gender affirmation scale,” support for “left-wing authoritarianism,” and whether respondents considered various acts of political violence justified.

The study found that the more strongly a person supported sex-rejecting procedures, the more likely he or she was to support “aggression toward perceived oppressors, enthusiasm for top-down censorship and institutional enforcement, and hostility toward conventional social institutions.” It also found that support for sex-rejecting procedures correlated with support for violence against Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump, and police, among others. It only claimed to find correlation, not causation.

The Human Rights Campaign did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment about whether it disagrees with the study’s methodology, but it did release a statement condemning the study.

“For nearly two years now, the Trump administration and officials like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have used our own government as a cudgel against LGBTQ people, and increasingly, the transgender community specifically,” Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson said.

“This so-called study, sponsored by an extreme........

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