Hanah Stiverson
Role at the time: Civil rights researcher and policy strategist
Condemned
Statement summary
Stiverson criticizes the report's political framing and says its measures create a false equivalence between authoritarianism and opposition to established power.
“I have rarely read a report that has come out of the government that is so clearly politically biased,”
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Why we used this label
Relative to the HHS report's claim linking gender-affirmation support with authoritarianism and violence, the speaker criticizes its methods, framing or use.