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Besides actual stories he wrote like Beast's origin contradict it. They directly cite his dad working at a nuclear plant with bad safety regulations for why Hank McCoy is a mutant. There's next to nothing in the Lee run that reflects a Civil Rights influence without stretching.
Beast being mutated by radiation does not in any way contradict Stan Lee's claim that people hating/fearing/misunderstanding the mutants was a metaphor for civil rights. A contradiction would be looking at the chronology of the series and discovering that this theme was introduced far, far too late to line up with what Lee says above, meaning he's either misremembering or making things up. But those themes do in fact show up in the first couple issues. Magneto's mutant supremacism, people panicking and trying to hurt mutants when their powers are exposed, the mutant community being divided over whether they should try to get along with the humans or defeat them, it's all there in that very first run.