The Human Rights Campaign rejected the HHS report's claimed connection between its selected measures and political violence, while separately stating that political violence is unacceptable.
LGBTQ+ advocacy organization
“spuriously claiming to connect so-called “left-wing authoritarianism” and violence”
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Official statement
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HRC's official response calls the report's claimed connection spurious, says political violence is unacceptable, and argues against demonizing groups of people. It documents an advocacy organization's institutional position, not independent validation of methodology.
Before the quotation
HRC's official response criticizes the HHS report and includes a statement from its president, Kelley Robinson.
After the quotation
The statement says political violence is unacceptable while objecting to demonizing groups of people. Its methodological and political criticisms are HRC's institutional position.
How this statement is classified
HRC explicitly characterizes the report's claimed connection as spurious and rejects its framing of transgender people as a threat.
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