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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) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday October 10 2017, @11:10PM
Let me guess. This wonderful psychotectic treatment is being suppressed by SJWs with time travel capabilities, which is why it remains so elusive in this timeline.
I think we should invoke lizard people for this conspiracy theory. But then again, I invoke lizard people for everything. I guess I can settle with time-traveling SJWs. Can we somehow work the weather war into this?
I mean, fuck, if ST:DIS can rip off Dune, I'm sure we can figure out how SJWs travel through time using weather warfare.