Clinician Guidelines Predict Authoritarian Support

A pre‑registered analysis (the CGAS) converted major professional societies' gender‑affirming care recommendations into survey items and found they correlate with higher left‑wing authoritarianism and greater expressed willingness to justify political violence. The authors (Jussim, Fedida, Wright) present this as a robust association derived from HHS‑linked research and say critics misread or politicize the findings. — If professional medical endorsements function as political or moral signals tied to authoritarian attitudes, that shifts debates over medical guidance, public trust in societies, and how policy and regulation should treat professional consensus.