HHS Wastes Taxpayer Dollars on Latest Junk Report Trying to Paint Trans Americans as a Threat

WASHINGTON - Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, responded to the publication of a study by Trump's Department of Health and Human Services spuriously claiming to connect so-called "left-wing authoritarianism" and violence.

The entities that conducted the supposed "research," the Manhattan Institute and the Network Contagion Research Institute, are both known conservative-leaning think tanks with track records of producing reports that align with extremist right-wing positions.

"For nearly two years now, the Trump administration and officials like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have used our own government as a cudgel against LGBTQ+ people, and increasingly, the transgender community specifically," said Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign. "This so-called study, sponsored by an extreme right-wing advocacy organization, is another example of the outcome leading the research - MAGA Republicans want to sow hatred against our fellow Americans in a desperate attempt to distract from their failures ahead of the midterms."

"And let us all be absolutely clear on this point: political violence is not, and must never become, acceptable in our society. But neither should demonizing entire groups of people for political gain. Trans people are not an ideology, they are human beings and our fellow Americans who deserve the same dignity as anyone else.

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is the nation's largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) people, with 3.6 million members and supporters. The HRC Foundation (a 501(c)(3)) works to ensure LGBTQ+ people are safe, seen and supported where it matters most: at school, at work and in every community across the country. From the courtroom to the classroom, from Congress to corporate America, HRC and the HRC Foundation build power through partnerships, storytelling, and action-working to create a future rooted in equity, freedom and belonging for all LGBTQ+ people.