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Bath Spa University is conducting an internal inquiry into claims that it turned down an application for research on gender reassignment reversal because it was "potentially politically incorrect" and would attract criticism on social media.
James Caspian, a psychotherapist who specialises in working with transgender people, proposed the research about "detransitioning" to the university in south-west England, which, he said, initially approved the application.
When he went back with his preliminary findings that suggested growing numbers of young people, particularly women, were regretting gender reassignment, Bath Spa said his proposal would have to be resubmitted to the ethics committee, which rejected it.
Caspian, who enrolled on an MA course at the university, said he was "astonished" by the decision and had sought legal advice.
"The fundamental reason given was that it might cause criticism of the research on social media, and criticism of the research would be criticism of the university. They also added it's better not to offend people," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Monday.
I was going to add some snark here but they pretty well covered making a mockery of academia for me.
Source: The Guardian
Also at: The Times
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 10 2017, @02:43PM (6 children)
I think you should ask yourself that question, my friend. Maybe you don't rub elbows with a lot of different people in your daily life, but one does here. One learns how to discern who's Jewish from Gentile, real Africans from African Americans, Sikhs from Hindus, and so on. In short, I bet my trandar's much better than yours.
Laws about trans people and bathrooms only showed up because they started this whole trans hysteria in the first place. It only became an issue when they made it an issue, so great work there, guys. And one-armed people experience subtle, pervasive discrimination every day, every time they go to put on clothes or open a door or use a computer or drive a car. Everything in the world is against them, not just bathrooms. There, see? I just made a much, much more compelling case for discussing one-armed people issues instead of trans anything.
Awareness about the trans issue is irrelevant to anyone who is not trans, because for every trans person there are hundreds of thousands of people who aren't.
Instead of spending time and energy going on and on and on about who has what genitals, because nobody cares, why not spend that time and energy on climate change, or dysfunctional democracy, or any of a number of other things that affect everyone?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by i286NiNJA on Tuesday October 10 2017, @05:30PM (2 children)
This is a good point. My whole life I was told that there was some trans-people somewhere... since at least the early 90s. That these people had another sex on their drivers license and are legally permitted to use that bathroom. I shrugged my shoulders and went on with life.
It wasn't until trans activist became a career field and selling kids unprescribed hormones over the internet became an industry that all of this became an issue really.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday October 10 2017, @11:32PM (1 child)
You know you're a damned liar. I know you're a damned liar.
Have your alternative, feminist-approved facts, then.
(Score: 1) by i286NiNJA on Tuesday October 10 2017, @11:57PM
I don't even know what you're contesting here.
I grew up in a purple state and in the mid 90s I was aware that somewhere there were trans people and word on the street was they were legally considered another sex. It was sort of a rumor-fact like but I assumed it was probably true.
It was never an issue until little johnny could go to girloids.com and buy a bunch of titty pills instead of going to a doctor. I'm not surprised that it turns out that many people regret transitioning these days. Jesus christ here I'm a radfem suckling SJW and then tomorrow someone will call me a alt-right nazi.
What exactly am I lying about?
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday October 10 2017, @06:07PM (2 children)
Laws about black people and bathrooms only showed up because they started this whole equality hysteria in the first place.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 10 2017, @07:30PM (1 child)
Nonsense. The Civil Rights movement began as a reaction to Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws were enacted as a reaction to Reconstruction. Reconstruction happened because the South lost the Civil War.
Glib rhetorical constructions don't stand up to a knowledge of American history here.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday October 10 2017, @08:49PM
You mean the Jim Crow laws [wikipedia.org] that mandated segregation of public facilities such as bathrooms?