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A researcher has been refused permission to study cases of people who have surgery to reverse gender reassignment by a university that said it risked generating controversy on social media sites.
I was going to add some snark here but they pretty well covered making a mockery of academia for me.
Source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bath-spa-university-bars-research-into-transgender-surgery-regrets-ddxxlbfzh [thetimes.co.uk]