Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
Role at the time: Epidemiologist and author of Health Nerd
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.
"There’s no good reason to believe that people who support “gender ideology”, however you define it, are more likely to be violent extremists."
Why we used this label
The author does more than offer a different interpretation: he expressly rejects the report's validity and criticizes the research and its promotion as pseudoscience. DI's condemnation label includes substantive criticism of a claim; it does not require a moral denunciation or the word condemn.
Meyerowitz-Katz's direct analysis critiques the report's interpretation of its LWA measure and its selection of political-violence scenarios. It documents his view, not a finding by Dispute Index.