Titled “Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology?,” the “study” was something that the department had “commissioned,” according to an August 26 press release. HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Brian Christine said the publication “raises important questions” and that “the association between sex-rejecting clinical beliefs, authoritarian attitudes, and the justification of political violence warrant serious scientific scrutiny.” Here, the department has unwittingly raised another “important” question: Why has HHS decided to commit public resources to investigate an alleged “association” between support for transgender people and political violence? That question demands actually serious scrutiny.
It makes sense that in commissioning this report, then, HHS turned to think-tank fellows whose other work aligns with the administration’s goals, specifically its broad campaign to characterize the left—and queer and trans people, in particular—as a security threat or as domestic terrorists. One of the authors, Colin Wright, hails from both the right-wing Manhattan Institute and the anti-trans group Genspect’s own think tank, the Killarney Group. Genspect is a leading player in an international network of anti-trans groups known for using pseudoscience to undermine efforts to protect the health and rights of trans people. Another report author, Joel Finkelstein, is the co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute, or NCRI, which has repeatedly sought to link the left with ”extremism,” including by espousing false equivalencies between political violence from the left and the right. Finkelstein is the only author disclosed as an NCRI affiliate, but the three other authors have co-authored previous NCRI reports (such as “The Corruption of the American Mind” and “Instructing Animosity: How DEI Pedagogy Produces the Hostile Attribution Bias”). However, they are identified in the HHS report only as being affiliated with Rutgers University—with which NCRI is itself affiliated.
To be clear: The publication of this anti-trans report is not a case of decent, evidence-minded experts at HHS being deceived. The agency’s Assistant Secretary for Health Brian Christine, who promoted the report, and whose X profile includes a banner reading “Make America Healthy Again,” regularly promotes medical misinformation about transition popularized by anti-trans groups. On August 13, promoting another recent HHS “commissioned” report, called “Wolves in White Coats,” Christine accused providers of gender-affirming care of having “mutilated, and then cast aside,” children “for profit and politics.” In fact, Christine was a speaker at a 2026 Genspect lobby day in Washington. That HHS turned to someone who works for some of those same anti-trans groups to produce this latest “study” also, unfortunately, tracks.
The report HHS published does not prove that “gender ideology” radicalizes people; it demonstrates only that the administration is trying to make that case, and that’s why this is so chilling. Unfortunately, this report is not the only evidence of the administration’s aims. In Trump’s blitz of executive orders after he returned to office last January, one of the first was titled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” At the same time, Trump issued his pardons of January 6 rioters. Altogether, the administration would now position trans people, not Trump supporters, as the “real” extremists.
There is more, and worse—much of which is not worth dignifying, like the right’s immediate attempts to claim each new mass shooter as trans, or the Heritage Foundation pressuring the FBI to designate what it calls “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violence and Extremism” as domestic terrorism.
“The leftist looks at a perfect family with a perfect life and a perfect job and perfect kids that goes to church every Sunday and is filled with a feeling of inadequacy and jealousy, and they covet,” Miller began. “It’s not a coincidence that when you look at these violent antifa demonstrations, you see any photograph of those who were assembled—to be blunt, not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They’re all deformed in some way—in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism.” He went on: “Every one of them, through the course of their life and their decisions, has scarred their body and their appearance, in many different ways, to the point in which their outer appearance becomes a manifestation of their inner hatred.”
That sentiment is the true backdrop to the publication of this HHS report: not only the acceleration of anti-trans misinformation and bad science but the pattern of scapegoating trans people and anyone who defends them. As with other Trump administration attacks on trans people, the report didn’t have to be well executed or even believable to work as designed. As much as anything voiced by Trump or Miller, the report functions as propaganda, built on a question that can’t produce an answer, only dehumanization and fear.
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