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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: 2, Disagree) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday October 10 2017, @07:36PM (1 child)
And why do you get so much more worked up about equal protection under law for transgenders than for the far more numerous population of one-armed men and women? Are they not as, if not more, deserving of having special laws passed to protect and honor them? Is their plight not worthy of being written into every screenplay for educating the masses, of drawing articles from flagship newspapers like the Washington Post and New York Times, of causing re-education, I mean "sensitivity", trainings in corporations, schools, and cities across the country?
I'll tell you why. It's ridiculous to pander to every thinly sliced cross-section of humanity like that, especially when you're not really after equal protection under law for all but to gin up another bullshit cause to outrage and divide people so they don't notice that the lizard people are *still* stealing everything that isn't nailed down. It's absurd.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday October 10 2017, @08:51PM
All Americans deserve equal protection under the law. Find me the laws that target one-armed people in an unfair manner and I will oppose those as well.