Dispatch From a “Hate Group” Employee

Apparently, I work for a hate group. I learned that this spring when the Southern Poverty Law Center identified Do No Harm, the medical nonprofit that employs me, as one of “more than 1,500 hard right extremist groups operating across the country.” We seemingly earned that label for our opposition, alongside a majority of Americans, to so-called gender-affirming care for minors, though I suspect that the SPLC also resents our stance against “diversity, equity, and inclusion” in medicine.

The SPLC is well-known for targeting conservative and non-progressive organizations. The center deploys a form of guilt by association, hoping that the public won’t notice the difference between genuinely awful groups and those that simply oppose the progressive Left. While the Westboro Baptist Church and the Nation of Islam rightly earn the SPLC’s “hate group” designation, groups like Moms for Liberty—which push back against progressive orthodoxy on topics like porn in schools—clearly do not.

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