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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @08:26PM (1 child)
What I don't get is the double-standard. As gay you're told to "accept yourself". As gender variant
you're given hormones and surgery. Surely somebody must have tried the "accept that you're a
woman in a man's body and learn to enjoy it" approach. If it worked, it'd be a game-changer because
you're not medicating and cutting an otherwise healthy body. I'm open minded--if we really can effectively
diagnose and treat this problem with hormones and surgery then fine. That opens a door that many
people don't want to open though--that it might be acceptable to treat gays with drugs too.
We don't really get answers to these questions without science. I think there's enough data
to safely assume that drugging gays is bad. Is there enough to assume that drugging gender
variants is good? Well now... social media might get triggered, so we don't know...
(Score: 2, Funny) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday October 10 2017, @10:20PM
What a bunch of feminist drivel. Your concern trolling ought to be transparent, but I guess whoever modded you interesting hasn't been exposed to this kind of thing before.
Yes, yes we do. I suppose I should at least give a link to LMGTFY, but I'm too lazy. Here's a link to a search engine [duckduckgo.com]. I can confirm that content that Alphabet/Google has disappeared from their search engine is still indexed there. Go forth and learn my ignorant friend!
But, you won't. You'll just accuse me of being triggered or flaming you because I'm trying to repress you.
Well, I'll drop by again later this evening. Maybe. Just in case you have a legitimate question.
Where should we start? You seem to be unable to separate gender and sexuality in your mind. Is that where we should begin? Help me out here, because I'm such a nice person I want to help you out! Help me help you help us all!