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University 'Turned Down Politically Incorrect Transgender Research'

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday October 10 2017, @06:16AM   
from the ethics-committee dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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

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• Re:"particularly women" Re:"particularly women" (Score: 3, Informative) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday October 11 2017, @03:22AM (1 child)

  by cubancigar11 (330) on Wednesday October 11 2017, @03:22AM (#580261) Homepage Journal

  No, "all the evidence" is exactly opposite of your claim. Or at best points it to nowhere. This is the problem with having feminists infiltrate academia and using powerless scientists for propaganda.

  The only people "it" helps are feminists aka female crooks get more funding.

  In fact, I would say that particularly women regret changing sex because then they get treated like men and men are treated like shit. But that doesn't suit the damsel-in-distress narrative.

  From this report [thenewatlantis.com]:

  One
  hypothesis, the social stress model — which posits that stigma, prejudice,
  and discrimination are the primary causes of higher rates of poor mental
  health outcomes for these subpopulations — is frequently cited as a way to
  explain this disparity. While non-heterosexual and transgender individu-
  als are often subject to social stressors and discrimination, science has not
  shown that these factors alone account for the entirety, or even a major-
  ity, of the health disparity between non-heterosexual and transgender
  subpopulations and the general population.
  
  ...
  Better research
  is needed, both to identify ways by which we can help to lower the rates of
  poor mental health outcomes and to make possible more informed discus-
  sion about some of the nuances present in this field.

  Yet despite the scientific uncertainty, drastic interventions are pre-
  scribed and delivered to patients identifying, or identified, as transgender.
  This is especially troubling when the patients receiving these interven-
  tions are children.

  ... we are deeply alarmed that these
  therapies, treatments, and surgeries seem disproportionate to the sever-
  ity of the distress being experienced by these young people, and are at
  any rate premature since the majority of children who identify as the
  gender opposite their biological sex will not continue to do so as adults.

  IF you read the full report it clearly shows that most "transgender" children are actually homosexuals struggling with their gender and close to 80% become openly gay by the time of attaining adulthood.

  Next thread about this exact same topic and I am expecting someone to still repeat the lie you just told and have it modded to +gazillion insightful. That is the fate of real science - it is deliberately kept outside of spotlight because it leaves no room for doing politics and gaining free power and funding for "changing the world".

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• Re:"particularly women" (Score: 2) by Kell on Wednesday October 11 2017, @11:05AM

  by Kell (292) on Wednesday October 11 2017, @11:05AM (#580389)

  I'm curious: How many trans people do you know personally? I've met a few, one male, three female and one intersex. I've asked most of them if the have regrets, and the only I heard was one of the girls who regretted getting her surgery done when she did because the technology got better a few years later and she had a less effective result. They do not appear to be the broken, mentally ill people everyone says they are. It's so strange. But clearly the evidence of your report from The New Atlantis trumps the evidence of my own eyes and the attestations of the very people we're talking about.

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  Scientists ask questions. Engineers solve problems.

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