Editing Science of Identity Foundation (section)

== Association with Tulsi Gabbard==
SIF has received a great deal of media coverage due to [[Tulsi Gabbard]]'s strong ties with the group.<ref name="Sanneh" /><ref name=NYT2019>{{cite news |last=Bowles |first=Nellie |author-link= Nellie Bowles |title=Tulsi Gabbard Thinks We're Doomed |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 2, 2019 |access-date=September 21, 2019 |page=A1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/us/politics/tulsi-gabbard-2020-presidential-race.html |archive-date=September 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926014900/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/us/politics/tulsi-gabbard-2020-presidential-race.html}}</ref><ref name=Go25>{{cite magazine |last=Godfrey |first=Elaine |title=What Everyone Gets Wrong About Tulsi Gabbard |magazine=[[The Atlantic]] |date=January 21, 2025 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/is-tulsi-gabbard-a-mystery/681398/ |access-date=February 6, 2025}}</ref><ref name="FFO WSJ">{{cite news |last1=Feng |first1=Brett |last2=Forrest |first2=Caitlin |last3=Ostroff |first3=Rebecca |title=As a Rising Political Star, Gabbard Paid to Mask Her Sect's Ties to Alleged Scheme |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=January 29, 2025 |url=https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/tulsi-gabbard-science-of-identity-qi-group-ed51c890 |language=en-US |access-date=February 6, 2025}}</ref> Gabbard was raised in the SIF community in Hawaii and considered Butler her mentor.<ref name="GrubeDec24">{{Cite news |last=Grube |first=Nick |date=December 10, 2024 |title=Senators Urged To Examine Gabbard's 'Deep and Intense' Ties To Hawaiʻi Sect |url=https://www.civilbeat.org/2024/12/senators-urged-to-examine-gabbards-deep-and-intense-ties-to-hawaii-sect/ |access-date=December 12, 2024 |work=Honolulu Civil Beat |language=en}}</ref> Her parents, [[Mike Gabbard]]<ref name="Sanneh" /><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Bolante |first=Ronna |date=August 1, 2004 |title=Who is Mike Gabbard? |url=https://www.honolulumagazine.com/who-is-mike-gabbard/ |access-date=October 1, 2024 |website=Honolulu Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Issenberg |first=Sasha |title=The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage |publisher=[[Knopf Doubleday]] |year=2021 |isbn=9781984898517 |pages=112–114}}</ref> and Carol Gabbard,<ref name=":5" /> are members of SIF.<ref name="FFO WSJ"/><ref name=WiHo25>{{cite news |last1=Williamson |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Homans |first2=Charles |title=Tulsi Gabbard's Unorthodox Path to Trump's Intelligence Team |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 27, 2025 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/us/politics/tulsi-gabbard-trump-national-intelligence.html |access-date=February 6, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250130023242/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/us/politics/tulsi-gabbard-trump-national-intelligence.html |archive-date=January 30, 2025}}</ref> In 2015, she acknowledged Butler as her guru in a video statement for an [[International Society for Krishna Consciousness|ISKCON]] anniversary event.<ref name="Sanneh" /><ref name=":1" /> Butler has likened her to a star pupil.<ref name="Sanneh" /><ref name = NYT2019/> Gabbard has worked to minimize and hide her relationship to Butler and SIF.<ref name="FFO WSJ"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Lubin |first=Rhian |title=Gabbard 'paid to mask connections' to alleged pyramid scheme tied to her Hindu sect |work=[[The Independent]] |date=January 29, 2025 |url=https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/tulsi-gabbard-senate-hearing-sect-b2688454.html |access-date=February 6, 2025}}</ref><ref name="GrubeDec24" />