Admiral Brian Christine
Role at the time: U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health
Responding to
HHS reported that, in its analytic sample, stronger agreement with its Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale was associated with higher left-wing-authoritarianism scores and greater stated justification for specified political-violence scenarios.
“This study raises important questions about what happens when ideology is given the authority of medicine.”
Why we used this label
Christine treats the report's stated association as a valid basis for further inquiry and supports HHS continuing this research, while not claiming the study proved causation.
HHS's official release presents the report's claimed associations, quotes Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Brian Christine calling for further scrutiny, and says the study does not determine causality or measure actual commission or intent of political violence.