Craig Konnoth
Role at the time: Professor of Law, University of Virginia
Statement summary
Law professor Craig Konnoth argued the HHS report's logic, applied to medical associations like the APA and AAP, would make "any medical recommendation" appear "authoritarian."
“By that standard, any medical recommendation becomes 'authoritarian'.”
The Guardian reports on the HHS report linking support for trans people to authoritarianism and justification of political violence. It carries criticism from epidemiologist Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz and law professors Daniel Aaron and Craig Konnoth, and an interview with report coauthor Colin Wright, who says the language could have been tighter while disputing the broader characterization.
Why we used this label
Konnoth condemns the report's underlying logic, arguing it would delegitimize any mainstream medical body's recommendations as 'authoritarian.'