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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, Insightful) by Bot on Tuesday October 10 2017, @08:58PM
> This weird spin of "conservatives are the truly tolerant!"
This is what you made of my "the right, that now shows the banners of tradition and personal freedom, comes from the national socialists, the revolutionary progressives of the 1920s destroying local culture". I will restate it, the right calls tradition the destruction caused by progressive bigots led by the former socialist Mussolini and the national-socialist Hitler in the 20s. How does make them tolerant? they are just less able to be bigots now. So the first place goes to left leaning progressives. Maybe in 20 years it will be different.
> UK not USSA
My point is that progressives are the same in the whole world. They held up the mao booklets, they held up the svastika. Progress is simply the progress of a plan of social deconstruction.
> shame for propagating culture divide
I wish I had that power, LOL.
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