Left-wing political violence has been building for years.

The body count keeps growing — and the pattern keeps getting ignored by the same media outlets that spent years falsely calling conservatives the real threat.

And a new study just unearthed findings about transgender ideology and left-wing violence that are going to be very hard for the establishment to bury.

What the Researchers Actually Found

The Department of Health and Human Services commissioned a study titled “Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology?” — and the results landed like a thunderclap.

Researchers from Rutgers University, the Manhattan Institute, and the Network Contagion Research Institute surveyed 1,208 US adults and built a measurement tool called the Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale, drawing directly from official guidance issued by major medical and psychological associations, including the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The people who scored highest on that scale — those most fully committed to gender ideology — were also substantially more likely to hold left-wing authoritarian views and to say political violence could be justified.

And that association held up even after researchers controlled for political identity and age.

“One of our study’s most interesting and perhaps shocking findings was that accepting gender ideology appeared to augment authoritarian attitudes on support for political violence,” Colin Wright, one of the researchers, told The Post.

Wright serves as an evolutionary biologist and fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Joel Finkelstein, chief science officer and co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute, and Lee Jussim, head of the Social Perception Laboratory at Rutgers University, also contributed to the research.

The study’s conclusion was direct: “These findings suggest that gender ideology is associated with LWA [left-wing authoritarianism] and willingness to justify political violence.”

Researchers also cautioned that “experimental research is needed to determine causality” — meaning the study establishes correlation, not a proven cause-and-effect chain. Wright acknowledged as much, noting that his explanation for the finding “is only speculative at this point, but we are addressing this directly in a follow-up report.”

But here is what makes the correlation so striking: it persisted across all six political violence scenarios the study tested.

Those six scenarios were not abstract. Researchers asked respondents about killing Charlie Kirk, killing President Donald Trump, killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, arson of ICE buildings, damaging wealthy people’s property, and violence against police.

Real names. Real targets. Real violence that has already happened to several of them.

The Assassination of Charlie Kirk and the Pattern Nobody Wants to Name

The study lands in the middle of a national reckoning that the corporate press has been desperate to avoid.

Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated on September 10, 2025, at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He was 31 years old. He had just answered a question from the audience about mass shootings when he was shot in the neck and later died at a local hospital.

Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old, is accused of firing the shot. Robinson had a live-in boyfriend who is transgender. Utah Governor Spencer Cox confirmed the relationship publicly, telling CNN’s *State of the Union* that Robinson’s “romantic partner, a male transitioning to female,” was cooperating with investigators.

Kirk’s assassination was not an isolated data point. The study’s authors noted the broader pattern directly. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh faced an assassination attempt from a suspect who later identified as a transgender woman. School shootings in Minnesota and Tennessee were carried out by trans-identifying individuals.

Wright’s proposed explanation for why gender ideology correlates with willingness to justify violence is worth sitting with. “We believe this may result from gender ideology defining specific oppressed classes and their oppressors,” he told The Post, “and the promotion of extreme narratives of harm for those who refuse to affirm transgender identities both socially and medically.”

In other words: when an ideology teaches its adherents that anyone who disagrees with them is literally causing genocide, some percentage of those adherents will eventually act on that belief.

The study even flagged a troubling institutional dimension. Because the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, and the American Academy of Pediatrics have all officially endorsed the five gender ideology positions measured in the Clinical Gender Affirmation Scale, the findings “raise a question of scientific responsibility,” according to the researchers.

That is a remarkable thing for a federally commissioned study to say about the medical establishment — and it deserves to be taken seriously.

What This Means for the Epidemic of Left-Wing Domestic Terrorism

Admiral Brian Christine, the Assistant Secretary for Health, put the study’s stakes plainly. “This study raises important questions about what happens when ideology is given the authority of medicine,” he said. “The association between sex-rejecting clinical beliefs, authoritarian attitudes, and the justification of political violence warrant serious scientific scrutiny. HHS will continue to pursue rigorous research that examines these relationships and gives the American people the evidence they deserve.”

The LGBTQ activist group Human Rights Campaign called the study “a junk report trying to paint trans Americans as a threat,” with HRC president Kelley Robinson adding in a statement, “political violence is not, and must never become, acceptable in our society.”

Nobody disagrees with that last sentence. The question is whether the people most deeply committed to gender ideology are actually living by it — and the data suggests a significant portion are not.

But the broader issue runs deeper than any single study. Left-wing domestic terrorism has been building for years, and the institutions charged with tracking and naming it have been slow to do so. Multiple assassination attempts against President Trump. The plot to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The assassination of Charlie Kirk. School shootings carried out by trans-identifying individuals. The sustained violence of the 2020 riots, in which federal courthouses were attacked, a police precinct was seized and torched, and billions of dollars in damage was inflicted on working Americans and small business owners.

The same media class that branded January 6 an “insurrection” in capital letters spent the summer of 2020 explaining why the burning of American cities was understandable, even righteous. The double standard is not subtle.

And that double standard has consequences. When violence by one side gets contextualized and minimized while violence by the other gets wall-to-wall coverage and political prosecution, the message sent to would-be perpetrators is not hard to decode.

The researchers noted that gender ideology “was not simply standing in for being politically left-wing; it explained additional variation in political violence justification beyond political identity.” That means this is not just a story about partisan polarization. Something specific about the ideological content of gender ideology — the victimhood narratives, the oppressor-class framing, the claim that disagreement constitutes violence — appears to be doing independent work in pushing people toward accepting real violence as justified.

That is precisely what Wright speculated when he described gender ideology as defining “specific oppressed classes and their oppressors” and promoting “extreme narratives of harm.”

The study’s authors called for experimental research to determine causality. That follow-up work should happen, and it should happen fast. Because the body count is not waiting for the academic literature to catch up.

What HHS has now put on the record is that the people most committed to the ideology that produced Tyler Robinson, that cheered the assassination of Charlie Kirk, that produced the would-be killer of Brett Kavanaugh, are measurably more likely to say that killing a president, burning an ICE building, or shooting a police officer is justified.

That is not a fringe finding. That is a federal study, built on a preregistered survey of over 1,200 Americans, drawing its measurement criteria from the official positions of the country’s most prominent medical associations.

The left built this. The medical establishment blessed it. And now the data is in.

Sources: The New York Post; HHS Office of Population Affairs, “Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology?”; The Daily Signal; The Blaze; The Washington Examiner; The Post Millennial